Multiple choice

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

O that my husband were alive said the widow.

  1. “O that my husband were alive!” said the widow.

  2. “O! that my husband were alive”, said the widow.

  3. “O that my husband were alive” said the widow.

  4. O that my husband were alive! said the widow.
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Explanation

The reported speech needs to be kept in quotation marks. The exclamation O will not use exclamation mark in isolation. The mark has to come at the end of the wish.

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