Which contains proper punctuation and capitalization

A - A stout lieutenant shouted "attention!"

B - A stout lieutenant shouted, "Attention"!

C - A stout lieutenant shouted "Attention!"

B - A stout lieutenant shouted, "Attention!"

The correct answer is

B - A stout lieutenant shouted, "Attention!"

Explanation:

When including a quotation in a text, we need to follow certain guidelines and rules for punctuation and capitalization.

In this case, we need to do the following:

Place a comma before the quotation Open with quotation marks First letter of quotation should start with capital letter. As exclamation marks are part of the quotation, they must be included within the quotation marks.

The rest of the options are incorrect since they do not include he characteristics mentioned before.

Option A-A is missing the comma before the quotation and the first letter in the quotation is not capitalized.

B - A stout lieutenant shouted, "Attention"! is leaving the exclamation marks outside the quotation.

Option C-A is missing the comma before the quotation.

B-A stout lieutenant shouted,"Attention"!