Which sentence uses commas correctly?
a. At the weekly business meeting, my boss announced in a calm professional voice, "Our computer software will be updated to Microsoft Office 2016 next week.".
b. At the weekly business meeting my boss announced in a calm, professional voice "Our computer software will be updated to Microsoft Office 2016 next week.".
c. At the weekly business meeting, my boss, announced, in a calm, professional voice, "Our computer software, will be updated to Microsoft Office 2016 next week.".
d. At the weekly business meeting, my boss announced in a calm, professional voice, "Our computer software will be updated to Microsoft Office 2016 next week.".
d
RATIONALE: Commas go after the action verb before a quote such as "such and so stated" or "said" or "asked.".
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a. contains a subordinating conjunction. b. contains a coordinating conjunction. c. is a sentence fragment. d. is a run-on sentence.
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