WorksheetsPunctuating Dialogue
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 3mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Do you start a new paragraph when a new person is talking?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
Maybe
d)
That is the question...?
2.
Where do you put the comma before the dialogue?
a)
After the quotation marks
b)
Before the dialogue tag
c)
You don't put commas before dialogue EVER
d)
After the dialogue tag
3.
Which one is correct?
a)
Allie, said "I love to talk!"
b)
"Allie said, I love to talk!"
c)
Allie said, "I love to talk!"
d)
Allie said "I love to talk!"
4.
Which one is NOT correct?
a)
"What if the world exploded?" Joe asked.
b)
Joe asked, "What if the world exploded?"
c)
"What if the world exploded" Joe questioned
d)
"WHAT IF THE WORLD EXPLODED?"
5.
Quotation marks go around the...
a)
Dialogue tag
b)
Dialogue
c)
Whole sentence
d)
(All of the Above)
6.
When directly quoting someone, how do you punctuate the dialogue IN the dialogue?
a)
You punctuate it like normal
b)
You ignore grammar completely
c)
You put double quotation marks
d)
You put quotation marks inside the quotation marks
7.
What should be fixed in this sentence?--
"Well, Eduardo said "I want to create a dictatorship,"" replied Fernando.
"Well, Eduardo said "I want to create a dictatorship,"" replied Fernando.
a)
Change the dialogue tag
b)
Change the quotation marks that are inside to an ' ,instead
c)
Remove the comma after Well
d)
c
8.
Heather stated that potatoes are actually alien creatures from Neptune.
How do you turn this sentence into dialogue?
How do you turn this sentence into dialogue?
a)
Put quotation marks around the dialogue and delete the word "that"
b)
Put a comma after "stated", put quotation marks after the inserted comma and the period at the end
c)
Put quotation marks around the whole sentence.
d)
Put quotation marks around the entire sentence
9.
Why would someone even care to punctuate dialogue?
a)
To add clarity to what someone is saying
b)
To add more emphasis
c)
To figure out what the person is actually saying
d)
All of the above
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