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Choose the correct punctuation for the dialog below.

A: “Well, if you’d told me,” David mumbled, “we could have worked it out".
B: “Well, if you’d told me” David mumbled, “we could have worked it out.”
C: “Well, if you’d told me,” David mumbled, “we could have worked it out.”
D: “Well, if you’d told me, David mumbled, we could have worked it out.”

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Answer:

C: "Well, if you'd told me, " David mumbled, "we could have worked it out."

Step-by-step explanation:

If you're going to interject with who's saying the sentence in the middle of it, you always put a comma and quotation before saying so-and-so said, or whatever. And after you say who said the sentence, you always put a comma and quotation. And finally, once you finish the sentence, you always and with a period and quotation.

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