Question

Which statement describes the revision, if any is needed, that corrects the sentence?


"Everyone," the speaker began, "Please take your seats."

A.
The word please should not be capitalized.

B.
The comma after began should be deleted.

C.
The word the should be capitalized.

D.
No revision is needed.

Answer 1

The answer is letter D. No revision is needed. The given sentence's punctuation marks are correctly in place and the rules in using quotation marks to interrupt a sentence is correctly applied. Proper capitalization is correctly done too. Therefore, the sample sentence is correct.