Keeps saying my stories aren't correctly formatted

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let adjective = (“hungry”);

let noun = (“James”);

let verb = (“approached”);

let place = (“cabinet”);

let adjective2 = (“moving”);

let noun2 = (“demon”);

var firstStory = (“Once upon a time, there was a(n) " + adjective + " " + noun + " who loved to eat” + noun2 + ". The " + noun + " lived in a " + place + " and had " + adjective2 + " nostrils that blew fire when it was " + verb + “.”);

console.log("First story: " + firstStory);

adjective = (“angry”);

noun = (“Smith”);

verb = (“bored”);

place = (“Detroit”);

adjective2 = (“violent”);

noun2 = (“humans”);

var secondStory = (“Once upon a time, there was a(n) " + adjective + " " + noun + " who loved to eat” + noun2 + ". The " + noun + " lived in a " + place + " and had " + adjective2 + " nostrils that blew fire when it was " + verb + “.”);

console.log("Second story: " + secondStory);

I tried looking at other people’s submissions to see if anyone had the same problem as me, and someone did have a similar problem but I still couldn’t figure it out.

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Welcome to the forum @Reddens!

Try removing the parentheses around the story strings. If that doesn’t help, please repost your code as follows:

When you enter a code block into a forum post, please precede it with three backticks to make it easier to read and test.

You can also use the “preformatted text” tool in the editor (</>) to add the backticks.

Pre-formatted-text
Pre-formatted-text1356×380 401 KB

See this post to find the backtick on your keyboard.
Note: Backticks (`) are not single quotes (').

Happy coding!

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You also might want to double check your string literals

" who loved to eat”

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let adjective = ("hungry");
let noun = ("James");
let verb = ("approached");
let place = ("cabinet");
let adjective2 = ("moving");
let noun2 = ("demon");
var firstStory = "Once upon a time, there was a(n) " + adjective + " " + noun + " who loved to eat " + noun2 + ". The " + noun + " lived in a " + place + " and had " + adjective2 + " nostrils that blew fire when it was " + verb + ".";
console.log("First story: " + firstStory);
adjective = ("angry");
noun = ("Smith");
verb = ("bored");
place = ("Detroit");
adjective2 = ("violent");
noun2 = ("humans");
var secondStory = "Once upon a time, there was a(n) " + adjective + " " + noun + " who loved to eat " + noun2 + ". The " + noun + " lived in a " + place + " and had " + adjective2 + " nostrils that blew fire when it was " + verb + ".";
console.log("Second story: " + secondStory);

Alright I did it, I found that error in the second strip, and it did fix the second story, but it still says the same thing for the first story, even after putting the second story code into the first story and double checking everything.

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Please post a link to this challenge.

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Try removing the parentheses from your variable values and story strings.