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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
#i actually didn't realise the dashes were supposed to go outside of the dialogue thats interesting!! :0#thank you very much#writing reference#i think i do everything else but the dashes was new info to me
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cutest family photo ever
#this photo is so interesting because the absence of splinter implies that this was taken during the time he was a broken nft#but the fact that donatello is smiling instead of losing his goddamn mind on the conphter in the bg tells a different story#also the fact that thet appear to be outside in broad daylight??? who in the storyboard room forgot the turtles live in the shadows in 2005
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Happy birthday!!!!
Thank you so much!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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27 today 😶
#what do i do with myself lol... my life is still a mess! 😃#ig i will watch turtles to cope as always
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when a character has a shirtless scene and they have washboard abs and no sign of any belly fat not even a little bit
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real footage of turtle titan every time he goes out of town and the turtles end up fighting bad guys without him
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just a question but
what the fuck is going on with pokemon ship names
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I’ll be using this screenshot constantly forever
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