Question

1. A man is talking about something to the king. He said, Yesterday, I killed a big dragon with my kick."

2. There is a man talking to the king.
He told a lie, "Yesterday, I killed a big dragon with my kick."

3. In front of the king is a man. He told to the king a lie, "Yesterday, I killed a big dragon with my kick."

4. In front of the king a man is. He told to the king a lie, "Yesterday, I killed a big dragon with my kick."

[Are they all grammatical? Would you correct some errors?]

Answer 1

1. Where will you put the opening quotation marks?

2. The first sentence is fine. The second is actually a comma splice. How will you fix it?
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/34/

3. The first sentence is fine. The second is another comma splice. In addition, the word "to" is not needed in the second sentence.

4. Too many errors in this one!