Dialogue

Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a story or play.

You use quotation marks to enclose the spoken words, and punctuation marks like commas and periods to separate the dialogue from the rest of the sentence.

Quotation marks indicate the exact words spoken by a character.

A comma or a question mark goes inside the quotation marks, depending on the sentence.

You can use a dialogue tag, such as 'said' or 'asked', after the spoken words.

A dialogue tag is a phrase that attributes the dialogue to a specific character, like 'he said' or 'she asked'.

You start a new paragraph each time a new character speaks.

"I love reading books," said Sarah.

Use a dash to indicate the interruption, and then continue the dialogue.

You still use quotation marks, and the question mark goes inside the quotation marks.