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Choose the correctly punctuated sentence:

1. He said Lets go out.
2. He said, lets go out.
3. He said, “Let's go out.”
4. He said “Let's go out”.

Correct answer: He said, “Let's go out.”

Solution

In direct speech, a comma is used after the reporting verb, and the spoken words are enclosed in quotation marks. The apostrophe in "Let's" is also correctly placed.

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