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Question:
"Take me with you," she said. "This little town and it's little people are more than I can bear, but I know everything will be different in New York".
Answer:
The answer Incorrect is correct.
Explanation:
You should punctuate the sentence as follows:
"Take me with you," she said. "This little town and its little people are more than I can bear, but I know everything will be different in New York."
The original sentence contained only two mistakes: (1) "its" is the possessive case and therefore is spelled without the apostrophe, and (2) the period belongs inside the closing quotation marks.
 

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