Boundaries: Punctuation and Sentence Structure

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 3/5

Shirley Jackson's short story ______ shocked readers of The New Yorker when it appeared in June 1948.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Explanation

Short stories, like poems and articles, take double quotation marks. Italics (or quotation marks here) signal book-length works; short works take quotation marks.

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