Select the sentence that is correctly punctuated.
A) "You may borrow my iPod, he said, but ask next time."
B) "You may borrow my iPod," he said, "but ask next time."

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In direct speech, the spoken words are enclosed in quotation marks, and any punctuation that belongs to the spoken words (like the comma in this case) should be inside the quotation marks. When the speaker tag is at the end of a sentence, the punctuation mark that belongs to the sentence (like the period or comma) goes outside the quotation marks. Therefore, the correctly punctuated sentence is "You may borrow my iPod," he said, "but ask next time."

Select the Sentence That Is Correctly Punctuated