Question

Puntuate the paragraph

you are going near the post office mrs reid asked her husband yes he said is there anything you want could you get me a small registered envelope please mrs reid said i've got to send some money to my sister in guyana ok mr reid said i'll get a coulee it may be useful to have a spare one avaiable.

Answer 1

“You are going near the post office?” Mrs. Reid asked her husband.

“Yes,” he said, “is there anything you want?”

“Could you get me a small registered envelope please?” Mrs. Reid said. “I've got to send some money to my sister in Guyana.”

“Ok.” Mr. Reid said. “I'll get a coulee, it may be useful to have a spare one avaiable.”

Answer 2

"You are going near the post office?" Mrs. Reid asked her husband.

"Yes," he said. "Is there anything you want?"

"Could you get me a small registered envelope, please?" Mrs. Reid said, "I've got to send some money to my sister in Guyana."

"Ok," Mr. Reid said. "I'll get a Coulee. It may be useful to have a spare one available."

Step-by-step explanation:

There are many ways that this paragraph could be punctuated. However, in my interpretation, I used commas to integrate my quotation marks, etc.

For example:

"Ok," Mr. Reid said. "I'll get a Coulee. It may be useful to have a spare one available."

I decided to add a period to the end of "said." However, you could choose to do it differently. For example, you could choose to write it like this:

"Ok," Mr. Reid said, "I'll get a Coulee. It may be useful to have a spare one available."

(Notice how I replaced the period with a comma? That simply means that "Ok and "I'll get a Coulee" is all one sentence versus two sentences. Both versions are grammatically correct. The writer simply needs to choose which one s/he wants.)