1. Finally Placenta said "Mamie don't you think its a shame we don't offer sanctuary anymore to stray embryos whose fate has left them so far from home."

Ans.

1. Finally, Placenta said, "Mamie, don't you think it's a shame we don't offer sanctuary anymore to stray embryos whose fate has left them so far from home?"

1) Set off an adverb that begins a sentence with a comma (1 pt.)

2) After the tag that is attached to spoken dialogue, one must use a comma [In this case said, . . .]. (1 pt.)

3) When one addresses another person, the name should be set off with a comma. (1 pt.)

4) Here the "its" is a contraction for "it is". (1 pt.)

5) The dialogue that Placenta employs is a question; therefore, it should end with a question mark. [Note: because the dialogue is itself a question, the question mark goes inside the quotation marks. If the entire sentence had been a question that included quoted material, then the question mark would go outside the quotation mark.]

Total = 5 pts.