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Which of these sentences uses quotation marks and other punctuation correctly?


“I tried to argue,” Joe said. “but the referee just ordered me to “quiet down!””


“I tried to argue,” Joe said, “but the referee just ordered me to ‘quiet down!’”


“I tried to argue,” Joe said, “But the referee just ordered me to ‘quiet down!’”


“I tried to argue.” Joe said, “but the referee just ordered me to ‘quiet down’!”

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“I tried to argue,” Joe said, “but the referee just ordered me to ‘quiet down!’”

Explanation: the tag "Joe said" is set off with commas because the quoted sentence continues, the continuation is lowercased, and the nested quote uses single marks with the exclamation inside the inner quotes.