Question

Geoffrey mumbled, softly “She could have fixed it. I know she could have.” Proofread the sentence to correct the punctuation of the quotation.

Answer 1

"She could have fixed it, I know she could have." I replaced the period with a comma. I guess if you had to change anything else you could replace "could have' with "could've" Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

To have the correct punctuation you have to move the comma and place it after softly.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are many grammatical and syntaxis rules about the use of commas, when it comes to commas around quotes, the first an basic rule is to always use a comma before a quotation to set it apart from the introductory sentence since according to syntaxis it is presenting a different idea, therefore the comma should be placed right before the quotation marks.