Inconsistent use of quotes in Grammar and mechanics guide

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open the Grammar and mechanics guide at https://stackoverflow.design/content/guidelines/grammar-and-mechanics and review the examples in the active-tense and headings sections. Remove the quotation marks from examples so the guide uses no quotes around examples, then verify the linked sections for consistent presentation.

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Description

Describe the bug
The Grammar and mechanics guide (https://stackoverflow.design/content/guidelines/grammar-and-mechanics) contains examples. The first five examples are quoted, and the rest is not.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to https://stackoverflow.design/content/guidelines/grammar-and-mechanics/#use-active-tense-(most-of-the-time)
  2. Check the examples given there, observe quotes:

“Update your profile”

  1. Go to https://stackoverflow.design/content/guidelines/grammar-and-mechanics/#headings
  2. Check the examples, no quotes are present

Performance overview

Expected behavior
No quotes anywhere around examples.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Ubuntu
  • Browser: Firefox
  • Version: 102.0

Additional context
See https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/380592/ for background.

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