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ELA Drills, Beginner: Punctuation and Capitalization 2. Which of the following quotes is correctly punctuated?

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00:03

Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

00:05

by the myth of the Loch Ness monster convincing tourists to stare into an

00:09

empty lake since 193. Which of the following quotes is correctly punctuated [Monster laughing at people looking into a lake]

00:17

well jeez Kenneth if you're that worried about getting eaten by the Loch Ness

00:22

monster maybe just the steer clear of the big pond... [Man runs away from the monster]

00:26

Alright well for starters if a piece of dialogue starts with a dialogue tag

00:30

there's a specific kind of punctuation that you absolutely need maybe even more [Finger pointing to a quote]

00:35

than you need that anti-nesse spray, what's option C got to offer well there's

00:40

definitely some kind of punctuation mark we need before the quote here there's nada [Arrow pointing to the punctuation mark]

00:44

just jumps right in obviously it hasn't been reading the signs what about A, well [Man jumps into the lake]

00:50

this one does have a punctuation mark but not the right one by using a period [Answer C is crossed out]

00:54

Kenneth said becomes its very own sentence but that's not even a full

00:59

sentence sure a child might yell Billy said during an argument but children are [Girl shouting a pointing at Billy]

01:03

very rarely accomplished grammarians so A is out what about B well to use a [Answer A is crossed out]

01:08

semicolon the clauses on either side should be able to stand alone as

01:12

complete sentences however as we saw with A, Kenneth said doesn't meet that

01:16

standard despite the descent of the esteemed grammarian Jimmy aged five with [Kid holding a book]

01:20

with a frog in his pocket, B is out what about D, if there's a dialogue tag

01:24

anywhere in a piece of dialogue you've got to set it apart with a comma so

01:28

there has to be a comma separating the dialogue tag Kenneth said from the quote

01:33

So yep D is our answer that's certainly easier than calming

01:36

Kenneth's Loch Ness monster fears To clear his mind we recommend he take a nice [Kenneth hiding behind a car]

01:41

relaxing trip to Transylvania...

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