Study the following examples of dialogue. What rules could you write about capitalization and punctuation? Make a list of rules for dialogue.

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Study the following examples of dialogue.What
rules could you write about capitalization and
punctuation? Make a list of rules for dialogue.

• It looks like bad weather today, announced
  Chris. He pointed at the dark clouds. I bet our
  baseball game will be postponed.
• It might hold off, McKenna said, at least
  until the game is done.
• Chris said that he doubts it, for he is sure the
  clouds are going to open up any minute.
• McKenna argued, Do you really think so? she
  continued, It seems a little brighter back
  toward town.
• He shouted, Its snowing! Lets go home.
• Maybe school will be cancelled, McKenna
  hoped.
• Maybe, Chris whispered, we will be out
  tomorrow too.
• McKenna announced, I can finally go home and
  watch Frosty the Snowman On Demand! My brother
  makes fun of me saying, Youre so juvenile, but
  I cant help it. I love that show!

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Way to go!
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Demonstrate Your Learning

• Revise the following to show all the dialogue
  rules Use the dialogue tags and capitalization
  as clues.
• Ladies first said Edward as he pushed the
  microscope toward Bella. You were gone Bella
  mentioned.
• Edward responded Yeah, um, I was out of town for
  a couple of days, personal reasons. So are you
  enjoying the rain? he asked casually, and Bella
  laughed.
• What? he asked.
• You're asking me about the weather? Yeah, I-I
  guess I am.
• Well, um, I don't really like the rain. Any
  cold, wet thing, I don't really like.

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Check Your Work

• Ladies first, said Edward as he pushed the
  microscope toward Bella.
• You were gone, Bella mentioned.
• Edward responded, Yeah, um, I was out of town
  for a couple of days, personal reasons. So are
  you enjoying the rain? he asked casually, and
  Bella laughed. What? he asked.
• You're asking me about the weather?
• Yeah, I-I guess I am.
• Well, um, I don't really like the rain. Any
  cold, wet thing, I don't really like.

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Now practice on your own

• Language Book pages

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When authors, song writers, and poets get their
works published by a professional company,

• the titles of their works are italicized.
• Examples
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Roar by Katy Perry
• Casey at the Bat by Lawrence

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BUT when you and I write it,

• we need to underline and put quotation marks
  around those titles.
• A decision must be made of which you must
  dounderline or quotes????

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Titles Quotation Marks

• When we write, titles of short works should be
  set off
• with quotation marks.
• short stories Amigo Brothers
• essays The Most Memorable Story of Unit
  Oneshort poems Casey At The Bat
• songs Roar
• articles Caffeinated Gum
• chapters of books Cells
• television episodes SpongeBobs Staycation

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How to decide
Titles Underlined

• books
• plays
• book length poemsnewspapers
• magazines
• pamphletsmovies
• television seriespaintings and sculptures
• CD titles
• Ballets, operas, and musicals
• ships, aircraft, and space craft

• When we write, titles of longer works should be
  underlined.
• When we type, titles of longer works should be
  italicized.

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Now practice on your own

• Language Book pages

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To review the dialogue rules

• Click on the following slides.

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• Use quotation marks to begin and end a direct
  quotation. Separate the quote from the dialogue
  tag by commas.
• I said, The book by Gary Paulsen will surprise
  you.
• Do not use quotation marks to set off an indirect
  quotation.
• I said that the book by Gary Paulsen would
  surprise you.

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2)

• An exclamation point or question mark is placed
  inside the quotation marks when it punctuates the
  quotation. It is placed outside when it
  punctuates the main sentence.
• For example
• I almost fell over when he asked, That wont be
  a problem for you, will it?
• Did the teacher really say, Finish by tomorrow?

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3)

• The first word of the quotation is capitalized.
• He announced, Well discuss the book in one
  hour.

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4)

• Both parts of a divided quotation are enclosed in
  quotation marks. The first word of the second
  part is not capitalized unless it begins a new
  sentence.
• This book, our teacher declared, is an
  incredible story of survival.

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5)

• Quotes within quotes If you need to have one
  character directly quoting another character,
  then use double quotes for your main dialogue and
  single quotes for the quote-within-a-quote. This
  includes publications.
• And then he said, Mind your own business. He
  has some nerve! she yelled.
• "Everyone will read the short story entitled The
  Escape' for tomorrow," said the substitute
  teacher.

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6)

• Periods and commas ALWAYS go inside quotation
  marks.
• I think youre wrong, Dan argued.

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7)

• Colons and semicolons ALWAYS go outside quotation
  marks.
• Dan said, I think youre wrong he was asking
  us to clean out our lockers.

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8)

• If the sentence continues after the quote and the
  following words are not proper nouns then you DO
  NOT capitalize the next word.
• Did you hear Mr. Marcoux? asked Steve.
• Watch out! warned John.
• No homework tonight! Mrs. Tomao asserted.

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9)

• When you write dialogue, begin a new paragraph
  whenever the speaker changes.
• Ladies first, said Edward as he pushed the
  microscope toward Bella.
• You were gone, Bella mentioned.
• Edward responded, Yeah, um, I was out of town
  for a couple of days, personal reasons. So are
  you enjoying the rain? he asked casually, and
  Bella laughed. What? he asked.
• You're asking me about the weather?
• Yeah, I-I guess I am.
• Well, um, I don't really like the rain. Any
  cold, wet thing, I don't really like.

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Another use of quotation marks is with some
publications.

• Use quotation marks when referring short works
  and sections of longer works. The following
  types of titles should be set off with quotation
  marks.
• short stories
• essaysshort poems
• songs
• articles
• chapters of books
• television episodes

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• Underline (when writing) or italicize (when
  typing) longer publications. The following types
  of titles should be underlined/ italicized
• books
• plays
• book length poemsnewspapers
• magazines
• pamphletsmovies
• television seriespaintings and sculptures
• CD titles
• Ballets, operas, and musicals
• ships, aircraft, and space craft