how to solve a dialogue completion in english
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A dialogue is a verbal conversation between two or more people. When in writing, a dialogue is a way of showing a story instead of explaining one through writing. Through a dialogue, the writer allows the reader to know the characters first hand and interpret the characteristics and story themselves.
Dialogue writing exposes the traits of the character, emotions, internal motives at the same time it establishes the relationship between the people. Dialogue-writing also shows the actions taking place without boring the reader with a lot of explanations.
So while we are at it, let’s discuss how dialogues are written. First thing in grammar that is essential to dialogue-writing is punctuation. Commas, quotations, semi-colon, period, exclamation, question marks, apostrophe- all these punctuation marks portray the dialogue and its emotions. Let’s enlist all of them in detail:
First comes Grammar
If you get this right, the writing will not only be easier for the reader to understand, it will convey a clear message through the dialogue.
Quotes
Quotes or quotation marks mark the beginning and end of a dialogue. For example – Nina told Barti, “My mom makes the best pasta in town!” Here, we can tell the exact line Nina said to Barti by looking at the sentence inside the quotation marks. Notice that the exclamation mark that is also part of the quotation marks shows the emotion or the tone it was said with.
Now what happens when the person speaking wants to tell something else another person spoke. In that case, we can use double quotation marks around person A’s dialogue and single quotation marks around person B’s dialogue. Person A is the speaker and person B is the one person A is speaking of.
“Dexter, her sister asked me, ‘What time is the game?’ Do you think we should take her along?”
While we are here, let’s also not forget that the way quotation marks are used in American English is slightly different. Apart from sentences that end in period and commas, everything else goes outside the quotation marks.
Period
Use a period at the end of a sentence but always keep it inside of the quotation marks, unless it isn’t a part of the quotation. If the quotation is ending before the sentence is, we can use a comma inside the quotation marks instead of a period.
“May his soul rest in peace,” said Father.
Father said, “May his soul rest in peace.”
Commas
Well, first of all, a comma separates a dialogue from the rest of the sentence.
Tamera said to Adrienne, “My two-year-old son has started riding a cycle.”
Question Marks
This is quite simple: if it’s part of the dialogue, keep the question mark inside the quotations and if it’s not, just keep it outside the quotations.
“Will you come to the party?”, asked Jeena to Candice.
Do you think Aden was telling the truth when he said, “I finished my homework.”?
Capitalisation
Whether it’s in the middle of a sentence or at the beginning, a dialogue always starts with a capital letter word. A dialogue tag like he said or she said may not be used everytime we use a dialogue. The quotation marks and the capitalization should be enough for that.
“Gina, will you pass me the spaghetti?
“Why, yes sir.''