Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
Correct answer: C. The doctor said, "The patient is stable."
- A. The doctor said, "the patient is stable".
- B. The doctor said "The patient is stable."
- C. The doctor said, "The patient is stable."
- D. The doctor said: "the patient is stable".
Explanation
A comma introduces the quotation, the first word inside the quotation marks is capitalised, and the full stop sits inside the closing quotation mark. Getting all three right at once is what the question tests. British and American conventions differ slightly on the final point, but tests here follow this pattern.
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