Dialogue Cheat Sheet, Exams of English

Download Dialogue Cheat Sheet and more Exams English in PDF only on Docsity! Name:  ______________________________________________            Period:  _____   Dialogue  Cheat  Sheet   Use  these  10  tips  as  a  guide  to  help  you  achieve  dynamite  dialogue!       Part  A   Formatting  Dialogue       1. Each  speaker  gets  his  or  her  own  paragraph,  with  his  dialogue  and  his  actions.       Joanne  looked  at  her  boyfriend  and  sighed.  “I’m  sorry.”     “What  do  you  mean,  you’re  sorry?”  he  shouted,  obviously  furious.  He  turned  and  walked  away.     “Joe!”  she  called  after  him.         2. Always  capitalize  the  first  word  of  dialogue,  even  if  it’s  not  the  beginning  of  the  sentence.     My  Dad  always  says,  “Don’t  count  your  chickens  until  they’re  hatched.”     The  teacher  looked  at  me  and  said,  “Congratulations!  You  have  detention.”           Part  B   Punctuating  Dialogue       3. Always  use  a  comma  between  the  dialogue  and  the  dialogue  tag.     “I’m  leaving,”  she  yelled.       He  sneered,  “I’m  going  to  Mexico.”         4. Commas,  periods,  and  exclamation  points  always  go  inside  the  quotation  mark.     “I’m  tired,”  she  whined.   He  added,  “Well  I’m  bored.”         5. Question  marks  go  inside  if  the  dialogue  is  a  question,  and  outside  if  the  entire  sentence  is  a  question.     She  asked,  “Can  we  please  go  to  the  movies?”        The  dialogue  itself  is  a  question     Did  she  just  say,  “Let’s  go  to  the  movies”?          The  entire  sentence  is  a  question