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Writing Dialogue. Put quotations around words that actually come out of the person’s mouth. He told me that he wanted to go to the zoo. Vs. He said, “I want to go to the zoo.”. 2. Place ending periods and commas INSIDE the quotation marks. Mark said, “I want an elephant for my birthday.”.
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Put quotations around words that actually come out of the person’s mouth. He told me that he wanted to go to the zoo. Vs. He said, “I want to go to the zoo.”
2. Place ending periods and commas INSIDE the quotation marks. Mark said, “I want an elephant for my birthday.”
3. Place proper punctuation at the end of the sentence. “I said I want an elephant for my birthday,” Mark repeated.
4. Each time a person speaks, begin a new paragraph. Mark stomped his foot and demanded, “I want an elephant for my birthday!” “Certainly,” his father replied. “Anything for you.”
5. Capitalize the first word a person says, even in the middle of a sentence.Mark’s mom asked her husband, “Where are you keeping this elephant?”