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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions src/pages/style-guide/content/voice-and-tone.md
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title: Voice and tone | Commerce Admin Development
description: Leanr how to write custom content using the proper voice and tone for the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Admin application.
description: Learn how to write custom content using the proper voice and tone for the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Admin application.
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Write sentences with plain, concise language. Use contractions for verbs. Never use a long word when a shorter word can take its place, and omit unnecessary words.

Content should be gender neutral. To avoid "his" or "her" pronouns, change singular pronouns to plural and use a gender-neutral "their", instead.
Content should be gender-neutral. To avoid "his" or "her" pronouns, change singular pronouns to plural and use a gender-neutral "their", instead.

*Example:*

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Passive voice identifies the action's recipient, not the source, as the subject of the verb. Passive voice is more complicated and less engaging.

Use the "zombie test" – if you can put the words "by zombies" after a subject and verb, you're using passive voice. *Passive-voice example:* "Magento Oopen Source is used (by zombies)"
Use the "zombie test" – if you can put the words "by zombies" after a subject and verb, you're using passive voice. *Passive-voice example:* "Magento Open Source is used (by zombies)"

*Example:*

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