{"id":10586,"date":"2023-05-31T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatassignmenthelp.com\/questions\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2023-12-21T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:53:53","slug":"john-announced-the-library-is-closing-in-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatassignmenthelp.com\/questions\/john-announced-the-library-is-closing-in-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated? John announced, &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"question_box_text\"><span class=\"sg-text sg-text--break-words QuestionBoxContent-module__secondary--R8Qi2\">a. John announced &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"question_box_text\"><span class=\"sg-text sg-text--large sg-text--bold sg-text--break-words QuestionBoxContent-module__primary--F++oO\">b. John announced, &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"question_box_text\"><span class=\"sg-text sg-text--break-words QuestionBoxContent-module__secondary--R8Qi2\">c. John announced The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"question_box_text\"><span class=\"sg-text sg-text--break-words QuestionBoxContent-module__secondary--R8Qi2\">d. John announced &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:-\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"sg-text sg-text--large sg-text--bold sg-text--break-words QuestionBoxContent-module__primary--F++oO\">b. John announced, &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #1f1f1f;background: white\">The correct sentence is <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: black;background: white\">John announced, &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221; <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"color: #1f1f1f;background: white\">The comma after &#8220;announced&#8221; is necessary to separate the introductory clause from the direct quotation. The period at the end of the sentence is also necessary to mark the end of the sentence. The other options are incorrect because they do not follow the correct punctuation rules for direct quotations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a. John announced &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes&#8221; b. John announced, &#8220;The library is closing in five minutes.&#8221; c. 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