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--- a/curriculum/challenges/english/02-javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/word-blanks.md
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@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ dashedName: word-blanks
 
 You are provided sentences with some missing words, like nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. You then fill in the missing pieces with words of your choice in a way that the completed sentence makes sense.
 
-Consider this sentence - It was really **\_\_\_\_**, and we **\_\_\_\_** ourselves **\_\_\_\_**. This sentence has three missing pieces- an adjective, a verb and an adverb, and we can add words of our choice to complete it. We can then assign the completed sentence to a variable as follows:
+Consider this sentence:
+
+```md
+It was really ____, and we ____ ourselves ____.
+```
+
+This sentence has three missing pieces- an adjective, a verb and an adverb, and we can add words of our choice to complete it. We can then assign the completed sentence to a variable as follows:
 
 ```js
 const sentence = "It was really " + "hot" + ", and we " + "laughed" + " ourselves " + "silly" + ".";