Question

Read the sentence.

“I need to take my saxophone to school _____ Reed exclaimed. “We have marching band practice after school.”

Which best fills the blank?


today!”,


today”!


today!”

Answer 1

The answer is the third one (today!"), because whenever an exclamation is used, a comma can't be used next to the quotation marks. Also, since the exclamation was in the dialogue, the exclamation point has to be used right before the quotation marks.

Answer: today!"