"What we can confirm is that talks are going on", Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, t
old Reuters on Tuesday.In order to be punctuated correctly, how must the sentence above be rewritten? A.
This sentence is punctuated correctly and does not need to be rewritten.
B.
"What we can confirm is that talks are going on." Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency told Reuters on Tuesday.
C.
"What we can confirm is that talks are going on" Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, told Reuters on Tuesday.
D.
"What we can confirm is that talks are going on," Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, told Reuters on Tuesday.
D. "What we can confirm is that talks are going on," Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Explanation:
In American English, quotations are separated with a comma from their introductory phrase. In that respect, in this sentence, the comma goes within the closing quotation mark.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the sentence is not correctly punctuated, and quotations cannot be separated from their explanatory phrase with a period or without any punctuation marks.
The author use positive and negative connotations in the excerpt given above in order to expose the two sides of his presentation. Connotations generally have meanings that are implied by words which is different from what they literally described. Positive connotations are words that have positive meanings while negative connotation have negative meanings. The two connotations are used together in the excerpt above to provoke argument.
Actually the first of the Indigenous people of Mexico were not the Spanish but instead were the Aztecs and Nahuatls, along with many other Native tribes.
