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Fixed minor grammar issue in escape-sequences-in-strings.english.md (#37940)

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Fixed minor grammar issue in list item 1 of the description section.

* Update curriculum/challenges/english/02-javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/escape-sequences-in-strings.english.md

Co-Authored-By: Randell Dawson <5313213+RandellDawson@users.noreply.github.com>
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## Description
<section id='description'>
Quotes are not the only characters that can be <dfn>escaped</dfn> inside a string. There are two reasons to use escaping characters:<ol><li>To allow you to use characters you may not otherwise be able to type out, such as a carriage returns.</li><li>To allow you to represent multiple quotes in a string without JavaScript misinterpreting what you mean.</li></ol>We learned this in the previous challenge.
Quotes are not the only characters that can be <dfn>escaped</dfn> inside a string. There are two reasons to use escaping characters:<ol><li>To allow you to use characters you may not otherwise be able to type out, such as a carriage return.</li><li>To allow you to represent multiple quotes in a string without JavaScript misinterpreting what you mean.</li></ol>We learned this in the previous challenge.
<table class="table table-striped"><thead><tr><th>Code</th><th>Output</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>\'</code></td><td>single quote</td></tr><tr><td><code>\"</code></td><td>double quote</td></tr><tr><td><code>\\</code></td><td>backslash</td></tr><tr><td><code>\n</code></td><td>newline</td></tr><tr><td><code>\r</code></td><td>carriage return</td></tr><tr><td><code>\t</code></td><td>tab</td></tr><tr><td><code>\b</code></td><td>word boundary</td></tr><tr><td><code>\f</code></td><td>form feed</td></tr></tbody></table>
<em>Note that the backslash itself must be escaped in order to display as a backslash.</em>
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