The Shawty Shack

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can ask be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

Diego - I absolutely adored his whole storyline of him learning to be a dad and realizing that he wants a family. That is my cup of tea right there, and I enjoyed every second of it, even if I personally think that Lila and Diego are a pretty toxic relationship. I think Lila needs to work on being a better person first (though she made a lot of good improvement this season), but I still loved the whole Dad!Diego dynamic.

Viktor - Seeing Viktor grow into himself and learn to be confident in his abilities was awesome, and I loved seeing happy for once with his siblings! I hated the whole Allison problem, though. Viktor’s lie did not deserve that much hate, and I totally think that Five was wrong for saying that it could make him a villain.

Klaus - Ahh I always love Klaus, and he was amazing this season. I hated that he spent a lot of time with Reginald, but the betrayal at the end hurt that much worse. And I love that he is learning more about his powers now! His time with Five in episode 2 was also amazing.

Luther - Luther has never been one of my favorites, but I actually really enjoyed him this season. He was just a big loveable dork. I especially loved his interactions with his siblings and asking Viktor to be his best man. His relationship with Sloane was cute and definitely a bit of puppy love (I don’t know if it is a relationship that would particularly last, and they moved waaay too fast). It is much better than the incestual relationship with Allison (though… they do still have the same adopted dad, just in different timelines).

Lila - I’m iffy on Lila’s relationship with Diego, since she is kind of toxic, but she showed a lot of character development this season! And watching her be scared that she will be a bad mother because of her own mother had me really feeling for her. I admit that I was terrified for the longest time that she was lying about the pregnancy after learning that she was lying about Stan, though. I think she has a lot of potential in the future. I also liked how she and Five seemed to make up and were even dancing with each at the wedding.

Five - Five didn’t have much of a storyline this season beyond trying to save the world (again), and I felt like he took a bit of a backseat, but I still love him. I really liked that he kept his character development from season 2 (if I remember correctly, the only person he killed was Grace, and she was a robot who had gone crazy). I didn’t really like how he handled the whole situation of Viktor lying, but I really loved his interactions with his siblings and how he saved Ben despite acting like he didn’t like him. I also loved him on the road trip, and all of the times when he got to let loose, like during the bachelor’s party.

Ben - I didn’t like him at the start, but he showed some promising character growth by the end of the season, and I am very intrigued about the “Jennifer incident,” especially since there were drawings of a girl named Jennifer in his room. I loved his interactions with Klaus during the wedding and when he saved Five from the guardian! 

Sloane - I really liked Sloane. She is definitely a little bundle of sunshine. However, I didn’t feel like her character had too much depth (though I definitely enjoyed watching her go crazy on the guardian when Luther was killed). She is sweet, though, and I hope she is back in season 4. 

And I got those little mini terrarium thingies and they grow like 1 tiny cactus from seeds and it’s super cute.

Anyways

I started out with three (Sam, Dean, and Cas) but Cas just WAS NOT GROWING. And so my family and I figured it was a dud and we decided to throw out the little terrarium.

But

Lo and behold almost a FUCKING YEAR LATER

Dean has two cacti in his terrarium.

(The one on the right is Sammy :))