Question #1

Question

Is the following sentence written correctly? Yes or no?
1. “Hey,” he asked, “who are they?”
2. “No,” she said “that is not painful.”
3. “His mother, he said, “is taking night classes”.
4. “Mother,” he asked. “May I go out”?

my thoughts:
1.)no because "who" should be capitalized 2.) yes, but should there be a comma after said?
3.) no because "is" should be capitlized
4.) no because a period after asked is not necessary and the question mark should fall under the quotation marks

Answer 1

1 is punctuated correctly.

http://theeditorsblog.net/2010/12/08/punctuation-in-dialogue/

Answer 2

thank you Ms.Sue

so #1 and #2 are both punctuated correctly?

Answer 3

No. 2 is not correct. A comma is needed after "said."

Answer 4

oh wait. #2 is not correctly punctuated because it's missing a comma after said.

only #1 is correctly punctuated.

Answer 5

Yes. 1 is the only sentence that is punctuated correctly.