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No brother said the camel

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Punctuation

" No, brother," said the camel.

Explanation:

  • The given sentence is in Direct Speech.
  • In Direct Speech we have the speaker quoting the direct words spoken by the speaker himself/herself or some other speaker.
  • The quoted words are put within double inverted commas or  quotation marks.
  • The first word within quotes begins with a capital letter.
  • If the quotation is placed at the end of a sentence it ends with a full stop or else it ends with a comma.
  • In the given sentence, ' No brother said the camel ', the quoted words are ,' No brother'. Hence they are within quotes.
  • There is a comma between no and brother to differentiate that 'no' is a  negative reply and does not imply the number zero as if there are no number of brothers.
  • 'no' begins with a capital letter.
  • Since the sentence ends with 'camel' the full stop is placed after it.

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