diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 87571d896e1128..42d17db3a3a2a7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ Loading and running tests
 
       A list of the non-fatal errors encountered while loading tests. Not reset
       by the loader at any point. Fatal errors are signalled by the relevant
-      a method raising an exception to the caller. Non-fatal errors are also
+      method raising an exception to the caller. Non-fatal errors are also
       indicated by a synthetic test that will raise the original error when
       run.