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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 also 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.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

yknow whats funny? people never really push the "oh theyre just friends" or the "theyre so sibling coded" when its a gay ship. i've definitely seen some people do it, but not often

the genshin fandom (and a few others) do this wild reverse homophobia thing where the straight ships get all the hate. its so weird and mildly impressive.

but thats besides the point. the caption is just one of the most incorrect things ive ever seen.

literally just a few videos up, someone commented that if kinilani was a gay ship people would love it, and they wouldnt say that theyre "sibling coded" and "just friends" (no hate if you do think that, i respect everyones opinions, as long as they arent weird). everyone in the replies to that comment agreed.

lets take a popular ship and use it as an example: kavetham.

if one of the two were a girl, i dont think a lot of people would ship kavetham. they would have the same dynamic, the same dialogue, absolutely nothing about their story would change. only the fandom's opinion.