Which of the following correctly builds a quotation into a sentence? Select one:

Mayor Dee Johnsburger claims that “the money budgeted for road repairs is inadequate.”

Mayor Dee Johnsburger claims that: “the money budgeted for road repairs is inadequate.”

Mayor Dee Johnsburger claims that, “the money budgeted for road repairs is inadequate.”

Mayor Dee Johnsburger claims that, “The money budgeted for road repairs is inadequate.”

Use the evidence below to find your answer.

Explanation: Introduce the quotation with a complete sentence and a colon. (Colons follow independent clauses - clauses that could stand alone as sentences and can be used to present an explanation, draw attention to something, or join ideas together.)  

Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but not a complete sentence, separated from the quotation with a comma.

Make the quotation a part of your own sentence without any punctuation between your own words and the words you are quoting.

Periods and commas ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.

Examples: The sign said, "Walk." Then it said, "Don't Walk," then, "Walk," all within thirty seconds. He yelled, "Hurry up."

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.