Adding Punctuation to Dialogue

Do you start a new paragraph when a new person is talking?

• Yes
• No
• Maybe
• That is the question...?

Where do you put the comma before the dialogue?

• After the quotation marks
• Before the dialogue tag
• You don't put commas before dialogue EVER
• After the dialogue tag

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.3.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which one is correct?

• Allie, said "I love to talk!"
• "Allie said, I love to talk!"
• Allie said, "I love to talk!"
• Allie said "I love to talk!"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Which one is NOT correct?

• "What if the world exploded?" Joe asked.
• Joe asked, "What if the world exploded?"
• "What if the world exploded" Joe questioned
• "WHAT IF THE WORLD EXPLODED?"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Quotation marks go around the...

•  Dialogue tag
• Dialogue 
• Whole sentence
• (All of the Above)

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

When directly quoting someone, how do you punctuate the dialogue IN the dialogue?

• You punctuate it like normal
• You ignore grammar completely
• You put double quotation marks
• You put quotation marks inside the  quotation marks

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What should be fixed in this sentence?--
"Well, Eduardo said "I want to create a dictatorship,"" replied Fernando.

• Change the dialogue tag 
• Change the quotation marks that are inside to an ' ,instead
• Remove the comma after Well
• c

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Heather stated that potatoes are actually alien creatures from Neptune.
How do you turn this sentence into dialogue?

• Put quotation marks around the dialogue and delete the word "that"
• Put a comma after "stated", put quotation marks after the inserted comma and the period at the end
• Put quotation marks around the whole sentence.
• Put quotation marks around the entire sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Why would someone even care to punctuate dialogue?

• To add clarity to what someone is saying
• To add more emphasis
• To figure out what the person is actually saying
• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D