Question

. 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

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John announced "The library is closing in five minutes ".

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Answer 2

This "sentence is correctly punctuated":

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

Explanation :

Before writing the words in quotes, a coma should be used after the verb to give it pause. Also the words should come in quotation marks having opening quotation marks and a "closing quotation mark". To mark the "end of the sentence", a "full stop" is used.

Having the right punctuations makes the sentence in order and meaningful. As seen, the sense of the above sentence can be easily perceived with the help of punctuation.