Direct Speech Punctuation T1

Which of these is correctly punctuated?

• "Stop!" shouted the officer.

• "Stop! shouted the officer".

• "Stop, shouted" the officer.

• "Stop! shouted the officer.

Which of these is correctly punctuated?

• The teacher said, you can go now.

• The teacher said, "You can go now."

• The teacher said, "you can go now."

• "The teacher said," you can go now.

At the end of direct speech, punctuation should be _______ the quotation marks.

When a character is exclaiming, we should use:

• a question mark

• a full stop

• a comma

• an exclamation mark

True/False: You don't need a full stop if there is direct speech in the sentence.

• True

• False

"Do you know," said the man, "that you are very smart?" is correctly punctuated - True/False?

• True

• False