Question

Which of the following excerpts is structured correctly?

Answer 1

The third excerpt is structured correctly.

Answer 2

The anser is C: "She wants to go outside," Jessie said, "and walk the dog."

 The sentence C is applying the rules for cites correctly, by using the puntuation (quotation marks and comma) in the right place. When a short sentence is a direct quotation, the one that uses the exact words of another writer, this cite needs to be between quotation marks, and a comma should follow the speaker's reporting verb (said, asked etc).