Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?

• A. "We are here," she said, "to learn."
• B. We are here, she said, "to learn."
• C. "We are here" she said, "to learn."
• D. "We are here," she said, to learn."

Answer: (A)

When you have dialogue with a speaker in the middle, you separate the spoken parts with quotation marks and use punctuation inside those quotes to show the sentence flows with the attribution in between. The first bit of speech ends with a comma inside the closing quotation mark, then you include the attribution with a comma after it, and finally you start the next portion of speech with its own opening quotation marks and end with a closing quotation mark and a period. This keeps the two spoken segments clearly part of one sentence and shows who is speaking.

That pattern—"We are here," she said, "to learn."—is why it’s correct. The other options misplace or omit the quotation marks or punctuation around the spoken parts, making the sentence unclear or grammatically inconsistent.