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Punctuation in Dialogue
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Directions: Choose the sentence out of the following that is correctly punctuated.
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“Why have you shifted your school?” the teacher said. “The teaching in my previous school was not up to the mark”, replied the student.
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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.