Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the sentence out of the following that is correctly punctuated.

  1. “Why do you want to join our organization? And why did you resign from your last job?”, said the interviewer. “My office was quite far from my house, sir! and I do not have any conveyance”, said the candidate.

  2. “Why do you want to join our organization? And why did you resign from your last job?”, said the interviewer. “My office was quite far from my house, sir, and I do not have any conveyance”, said the candidate.

  3. “Why do you want to join our organization and why did you resign from your last job?” said the interviewer. “My office was quite far from my house, sir. And I do not have any conveyance”, said the candidate.

  4. “Why do you want to join our organization and why did you resign from your last job”, said the interviewer? “My office was quite far from my house, sir, and I do not have any conveyance”, said the candidate.
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Explanation

In direct form of narration, the reported speech is put within quote marks and it is separated from reporting work through a comma (,). The question mark is put after the reported speech. The indirect form of narration does not use question mark.

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