English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 91

Place quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker or writer in the sentences that follow.
1. The health-food store clerk said, Sucking on zinc lozenges can help you get over a cold.
2. How are you doing in school my uncle always asks me.
3. An epitaph on a tombstone in Georgia reads, I told you I was sick!
4. Dave said, Let's walk faster. I think the game has already started.
5. Mark Twain once said, The man who doesn't read good books has no I advantage over the man who can't.
6. Thelma said, My brother is so lazy that if opportunity knocked, he'd resent the noise.
7. It's extremely dangerous to mix alcohol and pills, Dr. Wilson reminded us. The combination could kill you.
8. Ice-cold drinks! shouted the vendor selling lukewarm drinks.
9. Be careful not to touch the fence, the guard warned. It's electrified.
10. Just because I'm deaf, Lynn said, many people treat me as if I were stupid.