Exercise: Using commas with quotations

Insert a comma in any of the following sentences that require one.

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  1. Question

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    “The public be damned!” William Henry Vanderbilt was reported to have said. “I’m working for my stockholders.”

  2. Question

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    My mother was fond of telling me “You’d make coffee nervous!”

  3. Question

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    I refuse to believe the old saying that “nice guys finish last.”

  4. Question

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    “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous” Confucius argued.

  5. Question

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    “Do you have any idea who I am?” the well-dressed young man asked belligerently.