With dialogue Grammar foldable - PowerPoint Presentation

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With dialogue

Grammar foldableSlide2

Draw 4 quadrants on a piece of paper

With the paper horizontal, fold the two side edges in to the center line.

Write dialogue across the top of the two folded parts on the front.Slide3

Outside top left, write:

would you like your coffee black asked the waiter

Outside top right, write:

the customer teased what other colors do you haveSlide4

Outside bottom left, write:

if we become engaged cooed the girl will you give me a ring

Outside bottom right, write:

sure said the snarky boy what’s your phone numberSlide5

Rules to remember: speaker tag at end

Inside top left

Always capitalize the first word of dialogue

Do not put a comma in front of the speaker tag if the dialogue ends in a question mark

Place the question mark inside the quotation marks

Check for end punctuationSlide6

Rules to remember: speaker tag at beginning

Inside top right

Put a comma after the speaker tag

Capitalize the first word of dialogue

Place a question mark inside the quotation marks Slide7

Rules to Remember: speaker tag in middle, one sentence

Inside bottom left

Capitalize the first word of dialogue

Put commas on BOTH sides of a speaker tag when it is in the middle of a sentence

Do not capitalize the first word of dialogue when it is a continuation of a sentence

Punctuation always comes before quotation marksSlide8

Rules to Remember: Speaker tag in middle, two sentences

Inside bottom right

1) capitalize the first word of dialogue

2) Place a comma in front of the speaker tag but inside the quotation marks

3) start a new sentence of dialogue with a capital.

4) check for end punctuation.