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  1. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence below.
    The speaker declared, "As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers
    brought forth on this continent
    a new nation'."
    The speaker declared: "As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers
    brought forth on this continent a
    new nation".
    The speaker declared, "As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers
    brought forth on this continent a new nation"."
    The speaker declared: "As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers
    brought forth on this continent a new nation."

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Final answer:

The correct sentence is punctuated with a colon separating the statement and the quotation.


Explanation:

The correctly punctuated sentence is:

  • The speaker declared: "As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation'".

This sentence uses the correct punctuation by placing the dialogue within double quotation marks and using a colon before the quote.


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