Question

Punctuate the following sentence.
i said no im not don t be silly​

Answer 1

Answer:

I said no I am not.Don't be silly.

Answer 2

Answer:

The following sentence can be punctuated as follows-

I said, "No, I'm not. Don't be silly​."                              

Explanation:

• Punctuation refers to a collection of symbols/signs that we most often use in our constructed sentences or in writing English to make them clearer to read, understand and easily representable.

• The principle punctuation marks are Full stop (.), Comma (,), Question Mark (?), Dash/hyphen (-), Semi-Colon (;), Apostrophe (‘), Mark of Exclamation/exclamatory mark (!), Inverted Commas (” “), etc.

Comma (,)

• The Comma(,) represents the shortest pause that we use it to separate two or more words of the same part of speech Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs.

Period(.)

• The full stop/period(.), indicates the end of a complete sentence. It is a punctuation mark that looks like a tiny dot.
• It appears at the bottom of a written line and directly follows the preceding character with no space.

Quotation Mark/Inverted Commas (“ ”)

• Inverted Commas, most often spelt as speech marks or quotation marks indicate the beginning and the end of a Quotation or the actual words used by the speaker.

Since the given statement indicates a direct speech, we can add the punctuation marks- Comma(,), Inverted Commas (“ ”), and period (.)as follows-

I said, "No, I'm not. Don't be silly​."  

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