Which example of dialogue is punctuated correctly?

When a quotation is followed by a dialogue tag such as “he warned,” a comma goes inside the closing quotation mark. Choice A correctly places the comma after “wet” and before the quotation mark. Choice B puts the comma outside the quotation marks, while C omits the comma and D incorrectly ends the spoken words with a period before the dialogue tag.

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