Which punctuation belongs in the blank in each quotation?

select comma or colon for each blank.
comma colon
the queen stood before her subjects and said the “my loyal subjects, it is with great sorrow that i must inform you of the passing of my husband, the king. i assure you i will continue to rule as he did—with fairness and kindness.”

ricardo shook his head as he “i wish i were in charge of deciding how we should all spend our time this saturday.”

the defense attorney stood and boldly proclaimed this “my client is innocent of all charges. he has been an upstanding citizen of this state for thirty-seven years, and he has never—not once—been in a situation where he has acted less than honorably.”
just want everyone to know that the answer is colon, comma, colon. if you want it right on the quize

1. Colon

2. Comma

3. Colon

Explanation:

Rules for using a comma:

  1.   Use a comma before any coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet) that links two independent clauses. ...

 2.   Use a comma after a dependent clause that starts a sentence. ...

 3.   Use commas to offset appositives from the rest of the sentence. ...

 4.   Use commas to separate items in a series.

The colon is used to separate two independent clauses when the second (clause) explains or illustrates the first (clause). In such usage, the colon functions in much the same way as the semicolon. As with the semicolon, do not capitalize the first word after the colon unless the word is ordinarily capitalized.

Colon

              Comma

              Colon

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