Punctuation in Reported Speech

When a dialogue tag like 'Guillermo said' comes before the spoken words, where should the comma be placed?

• Inside the quotation marks, after the spoken words.

• After the dialogue tag, before the opening quotation mark.

• After the dialogue tag, inside the quotation marks.

• Before the dialogue tag.

If reported speech would normally end with a period, but a dialogue tag follows it, what punctuation mark should be used inside the closing quotation mark?

• A period.

• A question mark.

• A comma.

• An exclamation mark.

If the reported speech ends with a question mark or an exclamation mark, and the dialogue tag comes after it, where do these marks go?

• Outside the closing quotation mark.

• Inside the closing quotation mark.

• They are replaced by a comma.

• They are removed entirely.

What does the video compare commas in dialogue to, helping to separate the spoken words from the dialogue tag?

• A bridge.

• A runway.

• A traffic light.

• A signpost.