Question

1. Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated? John announced, "The library is closing in five minutes."
John announced "The library is closing in five minutes"
John announced The library is closing in five minutes."
John announced "The library is closing in five minutes​

Answer 1

Answer:

John announce,The library is closing in five minutes".

Answer 2

Concept: To identify the sentence that is correctly punctuated.
Answer: John announced, "The library is closing in five minutes."
Explanation:
•A comma is most commonly used to indicate where there would be a natural pause in speech.
•When a tag comes first, we need to place a comma after said/announced and open quotation mark and put a full stop when we close the quotation mark.
Hence, the correct punctuated sentence is the first sentence from the following options.
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