Answer:
"Now, who spilled the paint?" Mother asked.
Explanation:
Correct punctuation refers to the correct or right use of the punctuation marks, be it the comma, full-stop, question mark, or the capital letters in any given sentence. These signs are an indication of how correct sentences are written and used.
Among the given options, the use of correct punctuation is in the sentence <u>"Now, who spilled the paint?" Mother asked.</u> This is evident by the use of the question tag after the sentence spoken by Mother, the use of the inverted commas to signify "speech", the comma after "Now". All these factors helped determine the correctness of this sentence as the correctly punctuated sentence.
Thus, the correct answer is the third option.
It won't let me select it
The excerpt contains the first sentences of the story. The story revolves around a woman who is informed about the tragic death of her husband. After learning the fact she acts differently that the reader is confused whether she is in grief or she feels joyful or in extreme explanation she started acting abnormally. Reviewers of the story debated about the unhappy marriage of Mrs. Mallard. The reader can find the implications later in the story. But because of the insecurities and worries felt towards Mrs. Mallard the reader can yield from the introduction that the correct answer is A.
