Dialogue

How do you indicate that someone is speaking through dialogue? Choose the correct option:

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Which of the following correctly formats a beginning tag? Pay attention to punctuation.

• I said "Good morning".

• i said "good morning"

• I said, "Good morning."

• I said. "Good morning."

Which of the following correctly formats an ending tag?

• "Good morning to you, too," he replied.

• "good morning to you, too" he replied

• "Good morning to you, too." He replied.

• good morning to you, too he replied.

Choose the correctly formatted interrupting tag.

• so I began turning to face him how r u

• "so" I began, turning to face him "how are you"

• "So." i began turning to face him. "How are you"?

• "So," I began, turning to face him, "how are you?"

Choose the correctly formatted line of dialogue without no tag.

• me: to be honest i'm having a rough day

• "to be honest I'm having a rough day"

• "To be honest, I'm having a rough day."

• "To be honest; I'm having a rough day".

Choose the line of dialogue with a correct beginning tag.

• She admitted, "Yeah, Tuesdays are rough."

• She admitted, "yeah, Tuesdays are rough".

• She admitted "yeah, Tuesdays are rough"

• She admitted yeah, tuesdays are rough

Choose the line of dialogue with the correct ending tag. Pay attention to the punctuation inside the quotation marks.

• "It's hard for me to focus". I told her.

• "It's hard for me to focus" I told her.

• "It's hard for me to focus." I told her.

• "It's hard for me to focus," I told her.

Choose the line of dialogue with the correct interrupting tag.

• "I think," she paused, considering, "that I am overthinking this."

• "I think." She paused, considering. "That I am overthinking this".

• "I think" she paused, considering "that I am overthinking this"

• I think she paused, considering that I am overthinking this.

Select the correctly formatted line of dialogue without a tag. Pay attention to the ending punctuation.

• "We can do this."

• "We can do this,"

• "We can do this".

• "We can do this"

How are you doing with punctuating lines of dialogue?

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