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CAHSEE ELA Writing Section: Punctuation Drill 5, Problem 5. What should replace the underlined portion of the below sentence, if anything?
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- 00:03
Here's an unshmoopy question you'll find on your exam...
- 00:07
What should replace the underlined portion of the below sentence, if anything?
- 00:10
"Wait," he said. "Has anyone seen my keys"?
- 00:15
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:25
So... what is this question asking?
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- 00:26
It's all about placement: where do those inch marks go?
- 00:30
Uh... those are actually quotation marks. Thanks for playing.
- 00:34
Some befuddled individual has misplaced his keys and is asking where they might be...
- 00:38
and everything he asks should be inside of the quotation marks.
- 00:42
The question mark is part of what's being asked. So it really doesn't belong on the
- 00:46
outside of the quotation marks.
- 00:48
See how the comma after "wait" is inside the first set of quotation marks? Yep. Just
- 00:53
like that.
- 00:55
The answer is B.
- 00:58
As in, "Befuddled."
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