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Which of these sentences uses quotation marks and other punctuation correctly?
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about, “pumpkins at midnight,” but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about ‘pumpkins at midnight’, but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about “Pumpkins” at “Midnight,” but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about “pumpkins at midnight,” but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
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The fourth sentence is correct:
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about “pumpkins at midnight,” but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
Explanation: In American punctuation you use double quotation marks for a primary quotation, do not capitalize words inside quotes unless they’re proper nouns or start a sentence, and commas (and periods) go inside the closing quotation marks.
Cinderella’s fairy godmother had said something about “pumpkins at midnight,” but she’d been too busy swishing her new dress around to pay attention.
Explanation: In American punctuation you use double quotation marks for a primary quotation, do not capitalize words inside quotes unless they’re proper nouns or start a sentence, and commas (and periods) go inside the closing quotation marks.
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