Discussion
Which one of the following is correctly punctuated?
Answer: A
The correctly punctuated sentence is “Perhaps,” cried she, “there may be such giants as you describe!”
When a reporting clause such as cried she interrupts one quoted sentence, the first part ends with a comma inside the quotation marks, the reporting clause is followed by a comma, and the second part continues in lower case because the sentence has not ended. The exclamation mark belongs to the spoken words, so it goes inside the closing quotation marks.
The second option puts the commas outside the quotes, uses a colon mid-sentence and drops the exclamation. The third mixes single and double quotes, uses a semicolon and wrongly capitalises There. The fourth has no commas around cried she and inserts a stray semicolon.
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