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.
how do you do, fellow Creatives™
Finor, the first follower.
Clark never felt pain until after he became Superman.
Hey imagine that after you die and god comes to tell you that yeah you can go to heaven but you gotta find your way yourself
Like no one will tell you where to go or how to find the gate or whatever
There is no one around that you can see and you don’t know where you are since everything around you looks like an endless white void
THATS SOOOOOOO CUTE OMG!!!
Mozu: 名古屋展 (2021)
Russian handwriting
Just a stupid thing that was sitting in my desktop for a long time. Saitama just has very bad luck.