Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly? a. “did you know that chicago sits on lake michigan? ” asked brenda. b. “did you know that chicago sits on lake michigan"? asked brenda. c. “did you know that chicago sits on lake michigan? asked brenda.” d. “did you know that chicago sits on lake michigan? asked brenda”.

A

Explanation:

The only thing inside the quotation marks should be the actual quote, i.e., what Brenda asked, including any closing punctuation except for colons, semicolons and dashes. Option B leaves the question mark out, while options C and D are including elements that are external to the quote (with the additional error in D of placing the period after the closing quotation mark.

A. “Did you know that Chicago sits on Lake Michigan?” asked Brenda.

Further explanation:

Punctuation marks are the symbols and signs which are used in the written form of the sentences. They help in adding sense and meaning to the sentence. Punctuation marks help the reader to understand the written language as the way it would have been spoken. The pauses are added to the sentence with the use of the punctuation marks. They add tone and meaning in the written sentences to mean the same as they have been said. Some of the most used punctuation marks are a full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation marks, a hyphen, dash, colon, inverted commas, and brackets. In the given sentence the correct use of the inverted commas is in the sentence (A). All the other sentences incorrectly use punctuation. In the case of direct speech, the sentence spoken by the individual should be enclosed in the inverted commas. The punctuation contained at the end of the quotation should be enclosed under the inverted commas. In the sentence (A) the question mark of the direct speech has been enclosed under the inverted commas. Inverted commas are always used in pairs. They are used at the beginning of the speech and at the end of the speech in pair.

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Grade: Senior School

Subject: English

Chapter: Punctuation Marks

Keywords:

Punctuation Marks, signs and symbols, inverted commas, speech, quotation, direct, indirect, sentence, sense.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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