Multiple choice

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

The teacher said if the inspector asks you what shape the earth is and you cannot remember look at me I shall show you my snuff box to remind you that it is round.

  1. The teacher said, “If the inspector asks you what shape the earth is and you cannot remember, look at me. I shall show you my snuff box to remind you that it is round.”

  2. The teacher said, “If the inspector asks you what shape the earth is and you cannot remember look at me. I shall show you my snuff box, to remind you that it is round.”

  3. Neither (1) nor (2)

  4. Both (1) and (2)
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Explanation

The reported speech needs to be kept in quotation marks and is to be separated from the reporting verb by a comma. There is a short pause (comma) before 'look at me'. There is none before 'to remind you'.  

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