Ms. Sardelis said we must "absolutely and without delay" turn in our permission slips by tomorrow or we can't go on the class trip.
is this correct
2 answers
As long as the words in the quotation marks are the exact words she said, then it's fine. If it's a paraphrase of what she said (not a quote), then remove the quotation marks.
This lady is incorrect! my online Plato course asked this exact question, and said that the punctuation was wrong