Dialogue Writing Review

What should you use before and after the speaker's exact words when writing dialogue?

• Parentheses

• Quotation marks

• Italics

• Brackets

What punctuation mark is used to separate the speaker from the quote?

• Period

• Exclamation point

• Comma

• Colon

Where should periods, question marks, and exclamation points be placed when they are part of the dialogue?

• Outside the quotation marks

• Inside the quotation marks

• Before the quotation marks

• No punctuation is needed

When should you start a new paragraph in dialogue?

• When the dialogue is too long

• When adding a description

• When switching speakers

• When the topic changes

If the quote is a complete sentence, what should you do with the first letter of the quote?

• Leave it as it is

• Capitalize it

• Make it lowercase

• Add a comma before it

When using a comma to separate the speaker from the quote, where should you place the period?

• Before the comma

• After the comma

• At the beginning of the sentence

• At the end of the sentence

If a quote ends with an exclamation point or a question mark, do you need to separate the speaker and the quote with a comma?

• Yes, always

• No, it is not necessary

• Only if the quote is a question

• Only if the quote is an exclamation

Choose the correct punctuation for the dialogue in the sentence: "The teacher announced The quiz will be tomorrow."

• The teacher announced, "The quiz will be tomorrow."

• "The teacher announced The quiz will be tomorrow."

• The teacher announced "The quiz will be tomorrow".

• The teacher announced "The quiz will be tomorrow."

Select the properly punctuated sentence with dialogue for: "I did not do my homework admitted Jamal"

• "I did not do my homework," admitted Jamal.

• I did not do my homework, admitted Jamal.

• I did not do my homework "admitted Jamal."

• "I did not do my homework admitted Jamal."

Which is the correct way to punctuate the sentence: "This is cool" yelled Syrena

• "This is cool!" yelled Syrena.

• "this is cool" yelled Syrena!

• "This is cool," yelled Syrena!

• This is cool yelled Syrena.