Question

What is the correct way to punctuate the bolded portion of this sentence? Maria shouted Great job, everyone!” shouted, Great shouted. “Great shouted “Great shouted, “Great

Answer 1

shouted, "Great     that would be the best one

                               

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is indeed the last option shouted, "Great

Explanation:

The sentence we are punctuating here is using direct speech to let us know what a person, possibly a character, said. When we use direct speech, we use the character's own words. To make that clear, we must separate our words - the narrator's words - from the character's by employing a comma, immediately followed by quotation marks. Study the example below:

Lucas stated, "I will never allow this to happen to you again."

As we can see, right after the verb that indicates the action of saying something, we place the comma to separate the narrator's and the character's words. Then we use the quotation marks to enclose what the character said. Following that logic, the best way to punctuate the sentence  in the question is:

Maria shouted, "Great job, everyone!"