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.

“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

b. and i with my fighting heart, i thought at

first / to steal up to him [the cyclops].   the cyclops’ actions first odysseus to take

action after killing his men and trapping in the cave revealed his intent of

doing them harm.   that is why odysseus

blinded him to enable him and his men to escape.

the mending wall was written by robert frost