Question

Which sentences show correct dialogue punctuation? Select three options.

I won't go near the stuff, he told me with a grimace.
"Thanks for helping me out, Grace," she mumbled.
"Who took the last muffin? I was going to eat it this morning!" Anastasia groaned.
Why are you staring at me, anyway?" Yasmin snapped.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to tell anyone. But it's not that big a deal," whispered Jayden.

Answer 1

Correct answers: 2, 3, and 5.

Brief explanations:
- 2 ("Thanks for helping me out, Grace," she mumbled.) — comma inside the closing quote and the dialogue tag is correctly lowercase.
- 3 ("Who took the last muffin? I was going to eat it this morning!" Anastasia groaned.) — the question and exclamation marks remain inside the quotes; the speaker tag follows correctly.
- 5 ("Don't worry, I'm not going to tell anyone. But it's not that big a deal," whispered Jayden.) — the dialogue tag follows the quoted speech and the comma before the tag is acceptable.

Sentences 1 and 4 are incorrect because they have missing opening quotation marks (they show quoted speech without proper quotation marks).