Quotation marks 1

In each pair, choose the sentence that uses quotation marks and other punctuation correctly.

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Example

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◯ “That’s the most beautiful seashell I’ve ever seen!”, shouted Alexa.
◯ “That’s the most beautiful seashell I’ve ever seen!” shouted Alexa.
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◯ “Get your head in the game, and the rest will come,” advised the coach just before the whistle.
◯ “Get your head in the game, and the rest will come” advised the coach just before the whistle.
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◯ Gloria Steinem once twisted an old proverb like this: “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
◯ Gloria Steinem once twisted an old proverb like this, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
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◯ “Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections,” says Fran Lebowitz, “children tend to be sticky.”
◯ “Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, says Fran Lebowitz, children tend to be sticky.”
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◯ Have you heard the Cowboy Junkies’ cover of Hank Williams’s song “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry?”
◯ Have you heard the Cowboy Junkies’ cover of Hank Williams’s “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”?
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