Punctuation
True or False: A period should follow a quoted sentence.
Ex:"Wow. Just wow." Kimber said with disbelief.
FALSE
Where does dialogue go in a story?
It goes where someone is speaking, specifically right before and after they speak.
Ex:"Wow, you're really cool!" Jane said with excitement.
When a piece of dialogue is finished being said, and is being finished with a dialogue tag, (ex: he said, she said, they responded...) is that tag an uppercase or lowercase?
Ex: "Wow!" she yelled, or...
"Wow!" She yelled.
it is infact a lowercase. You almost always keep the first word of the tag lowercase because it is still the same sentence.
What is the correct punctuation mark for this quoted sentence?
Ex:"Watch out__" Jamie yelled.
An Exclamation mark!
True or False: All pieces of dialogue has to have quotation marks.
True! When there is a speaker, there must be quotation marks around their sentence.
True or False: You can have a dialogue tag before the sentence.
True! A dialogue tag can be before, in the middle, or in the end of a quote.
Ex:John said, "Mom! Wait up!"
Ex:This can't be..."I exclaimed, "I thought he went missing over 5 years ago."
Ex: "OMG!" Milly shouted.
Does dashes or ellipses cut off a speakers sentence?
Both do!
How do you quote something that someone is saying that was said by someone else?
Ex: Riley said BACK OFF, so then I jumped away.
(Where would the quotes be? How many quotes would you use?)
Add single quotation marks.
Ex:"Professor said that 'the test will take two hours and we can't use out notebooks,' so I'm angry now," I explained to Bob.
True or False: Paragraphs start every time a new speaker is introduced.
True!