Question

Which of these statements is punctuated properly? "We can't tell them anything," I said, without thinking. We can't tell them anything, I said, without thinking. "We can't tell them anything"I said without thinking. We can't tell them anything, I said, "without thinking.

Answer 1

“We can’t tell them anything”, I said, without thinking.

This is proper because when a person says something in the novel these (“”) must be used to isolate their words.

Look at this example as well:

According to Abraham Lincoln, “America will never be destroyed on the outside”. This means _________