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Study Section 19: Using Quotation Marks correctly
Rewrite each sentence using quotation marks, punctuation, and capitalization where needed.
Do not change indirect quotes.

1. What happened to you asked Wilson?

2. I slipped and sprained my ankle responded Nina.

3. Wilson asked how Nina had sprained her ankle.

4. Nina confessed it was caused by my new shoes that are too big.

5. I warned you about those things chided Wilson.

6. But they are such a pretty color insisted Nina.

7. He could recite the rules about the cabins.

8. Are you going to answer me when I say please do as I ask?

9. Are you going to graduate were the exact words used by the teacher.

10. Why did Evans say make sure you clean your cabin tonight?

11. Give me the box John screamed.

12. In this essay the author explained many people become sick from unclean water.

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