Multiple choice

Directions: The given question carries four options. You are to mark the correct option after checking the punctuation of each option.

Why are you making the water muddy shouted the man.

  1. “Why are you making the water muddy?” shouted the man.

  2. “Why are you making the water muddy,” shouted the man.

  3. “Why are you making the water muddy!” shouted the man.

  4. Why are you making the water muddy? Shouted the man.
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Explanation

The reported speech needs to be kept in quotation marks. The reported speech is a question, so a question mark will follow it. The reporting verb need not begin with a capital letter.

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