Question

Which of the following excerpts is structured correctly?

"She wants to go outside..... and walk the dog." Jessie said.
"She wants to go outside," said Jessie. "And walk the dog."
"She wants to go outside," Jessie said, "and walk the dog."
"Jessie said "She wants to go outside, and walk the dog."

Answer 1

The third excerpt is structured correctly.

Answer 2

The anser is C: "She wants to go outside," Jessie said, "and walk the dog."

The sentence C is applying the rules for cites correctly, by using the puntuation (quotation marks and comma) in the right place. When a short sentence is a direct quotation, the one that uses the exact words of another writer, this cite needs to be between quotation marks, and a comma should follow the speaker's reporting verb (said, asked etc).