What is wrong with this sentence?

Question

I walked in and asked, "Do you have the red shirt"?

My 3 choices are...

The comma before the quotation

The punctuation after the quotation

The capitalized letter inside the quotation

Answer 1

The question mark should, in this instance, be inside the quotation marks, as the question is fully contained within the quote.

I don't agree, however, that the question mark should always be inside the quotes.

In this sentence, the question mark goes outside the quotes, because the statement inside the quotes is not a question:
Did you say 'I am not coming back'?

Answer 2

I would say it is the question mark after the quotation. In this case, the person being quoted is asking the question, not the narrator and so the punctuation belongs with the quote. You wouldn't say "I walked in and asked?"

The proper quotation would be "Do you have the red shirt?"

Answer 3

2

Answer 4

It should look like this..... I walked in and asked, "Do you have the red shirt?" Your punctuation should always go inside the quotation marks.

Answer 5

The end punctuation ALWAYS goes inside the quotation marks. I am a teacher and I've been a proofreader and copywriter.

It should be: I walked in and asked, "Do you have the red shirt?"

Answer 6

The punctuation after the quotation.

Answer 7

The punctuation after the quotation

Answer 8

The question mark needs to go inside the quotation marks so that makes answer two the correct one.

English teacher here

Answer 9

this is what it should look like:

I walked in and asked, "do you have the red shirt?"

The comma is fine, the Do should not be capitalized and always remember that the punctuation at the end of a sentence always goes INSIDE the parenthases

Answer 10

the punctuation after the quotation