Dialogue Challenge

"Halloween is almost here," I whispered in a scared voice.

• Correct

• Take out the comma

• Move comma to the outside of the " mark

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Laughing, my friend Joey joked, "What? You don't like candy or something?"

• Correct

• ? goes outside the " mark

• no comma after joked

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

"Of course, I do", I replied. "I don't like creepy cemeteries."

• correct

• comma goes inside the " mark

• period after replied should be comma

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

"Well, there's no such thing as ghosts."

"Are you sure?" I said, reluctantly.

• correct

• move the second line up to the first

• add a comma after the word ghost

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Pondering how to scare his friend, Joey challenged him. "Let's take a shortcut through the cemetery on the way to get the king size candy bars on Main Street!"

• correct

• comma after the word him

• exclamation goes outside the " mark

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

"OK, but only because I like those king sizers!"

• correct

• you must have a dialog tag (I.e. he said or I said)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.2B

As Joey and I sprinted through the ominous gravestones, he yelled "Chicken!"

• correct

• comma needed after yelled

• exclamation mark goes outside the " mark

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

Just then, Steve jumped out from behind a tree. "Booo!" he shouted.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" I screamed in sheer terror.

• Correct

• comma after tree, not a period

• move the 3rd line up after shouted

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

"Gotcha!" he and Joey grinned mischievously at me.

• correct

• take out the ! and use a comma

• Capitalize the word 'he'

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B