Select the sentence that is correctly punctuated. Select the sentence that is correctly punctuated.
A) The survey stated that only 62 percent of the population will vote in the city election.
B) The survey stated that "only 62 percent of the population will vote in the city election."

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Sentence A is correctly punctuated because it does not improperly place a period outside of quotation marks. In American English, periods and commas go inside quotation marks, but sentence B incorrectly places the period outside the quotation marks.

Select the Sentence That Is Correctly Punctuated