Punctuating Dialogue Containing Other Punctuation Marks - By ElaineVazquez
Transcript
| 00:00 | Hello Today we're going to take a look at punctuating | |
| 00:04 | dialogue so you never make a mistake again . Obviously | |
| 00:11 | , when you're punctuating dialogue , you need to use | |
| 00:14 | your quotation marks effectively . Let's take a little look | |
| 00:18 | at a conversation between Fred and Mary Fred . It's | |
| 00:24 | my turn . Give me the iPad , Mary Wind | |
| 00:29 | right now . No , I'm Fred paused , busy | |
| 00:36 | playing angry birds . Now , as you can see | |
| 00:40 | on Lee , the words spoken are surrounded by the | |
| 00:43 | quotation marks and nothing else . The little tags that | |
| 00:48 | say Who said what are not in the quotation marks | |
| 00:52 | ? They are separate , and they're separated off by | |
| 00:55 | commas as well . There's a common at the end | |
| 00:58 | here . And then there's a comma after what was | |
| 01:02 | said by Mary . But you'll notice that the comma | |
| 01:05 | here is inside the quotation mark , whereas the comma | |
| 01:08 | here that separates off Mary Wind is outside . What | |
| 01:13 | she says next , when she yells , Right now | |
| 01:16 | , it's the same thing down here with Fred , | |
| 01:19 | you've got the common that separates off what Fred started | |
| 01:21 | to say before he paused , and then the little | |
| 01:24 | indicators , saying that Fred Paused , separated off with | |
| 01:27 | a comma , and then the quotation marks that go | |
| 01:30 | around . His exact words and his exact words were | |
| 01:33 | busy playing angry birds . You need to remember to | |
| 01:39 | keep the punctuation marks inside the quotation marks . So | |
| 01:43 | , in other words , if you're using specific punctuation | |
| 01:46 | like an exclamation point or a question mark to indicate | |
| 01:50 | the volume or the type of phrase that the person | |
| 01:56 | is saying , you need to keep those punctuation marks | |
| 01:59 | inside the quotation marks . Let's see if you can | |
| 02:02 | find the mist ake , so help me if you | |
| 02:06 | don't let me have a turn , I'll tell Mom | |
| 02:09 | , Mary screamed . Do you think she'll even care | |
| 02:14 | ? Fred taunted . Now you've got to , um | |
| 02:19 | , bits of dialogue here . One is written correctly | |
| 02:23 | , and one is not . Which one is correct | |
| 02:28 | ? That's right , it's Do you think she'll even | |
| 02:31 | care ? Because the question mark here is inside the | |
| 02:35 | quotation mark . Whereas when Mary screams the exclamation point | |
| 02:40 | , there is outside . The quotation mark , now | |
| 02:46 | on uninterrupted speech , needs quotation marks on Lee at | |
| 02:50 | the beginning and the end . We've just looked at | |
| 02:53 | examples of interrupted speech where the speeches interrupted by the | |
| 02:58 | tag that indicates who's saying what , but now we're | |
| 03:02 | going to look at two bits of bits of dialogue | |
| 03:06 | that have uninterrupted speech with the tags . At the | |
| 03:09 | end of what was said , you are such a | |
| 03:13 | greedy pig . Everyone says so . I'll bet you | |
| 03:17 | got it f and sharing When you were in preschool | |
| 03:20 | , Mary shouted . Oh , whatever . I have | |
| 03:24 | so many more friends than you dio . Everyone at | |
| 03:27 | school says You smell , Fred stated . Now which | |
| 03:31 | one of these is correct ? That's right . It's | |
| 03:38 | the You are such a greedy pig . The thing | |
| 03:40 | that Mary shouted , and you'll notice that this whole | |
| 03:43 | entire thing if it would get smaller again , this | |
| 03:46 | whole entire thing is in quotation marks , whereas here | |
| 03:50 | everything , Fred said . Every sentence is separated by | |
| 03:53 | quotation mark and at this point , and this is | |
| 03:56 | where you have to be careful when you're typing this | |
| 03:58 | quotation marks is backwards . It's backwards because there's a | |
| 04:02 | space between where the quotation mark is and the eye | |
| 04:07 | there's the writer had accidentally put a space there . | |
| 04:10 | Therefore , it made this quotation mark backwards . Your | |
| 04:13 | quotation marks should always snuggle up to what is being | |
| 04:16 | said Now . You also need to remember that you | |
| 04:23 | need to start a new paragraph each time the speaker | |
| 04:27 | changes . If you have a couple of people speaking | |
| 04:31 | to each other and you make them speak within one | |
| 04:34 | paragraph and you don't start a new one for each | |
| 04:37 | speaker . It's really confusing for the reader to figure | |
| 04:41 | out who is saying what . So when you write | |
| 04:44 | your dialogue , it should look something like this . | |
| 04:49 | You can be so cruel sometimes , Mary wailed . | |
| 04:54 | Oh , I suppose you'll go crying to Mom , | |
| 04:58 | Fred Side , You said . People think I smell | |
| 05:03 | sobbed , Mary . That's so mean . It's pretty | |
| 05:06 | obvious here that we're switching speakers . As you can | |
| 05:10 | see , it's indented each time that a new speaker | |
| 05:13 | begins . So we have Mary than Fred than Mary | |
| 05:16 | , and it's very clear it's much clearer this way | |
| 05:20 | than it is if you had it all in one | |
| 05:23 | paragraph . Finally , when Onley , too . People | |
| 05:28 | are talking . You do not have to keep using | |
| 05:31 | their names . Sometimes it's really clear who is saying | |
| 05:35 | what and to keep saying , Fred said . Mary | |
| 05:39 | said , Fred yelled , Mary , wine just gets | |
| 05:42 | a bit repetitive , so let's just look at the | |
| 05:45 | rest of the conversation between Fred and Mary and see | |
| 05:48 | if you can figure out who is saying what . | |
| 05:51 | Despite the fact that it doesn't say who is saying | |
| 05:54 | what people don't really think you smell . They don't | |
| 06:02 | Of course not . And I don't think so either | |
| 06:07 | . Really . Off course . You're my sister . | |
| 06:12 | We probably smell exactly the same . So you'll let | |
| 06:16 | me have a turn now . No , I'm busy | |
| 06:20 | . Go away now . It's obvious here exactly who | |
| 06:25 | is saying what ? Since Fred started out telling Mary | |
| 06:28 | that she smelled here , he's trying to comfort her | |
| 06:31 | so you can see and hear . Mary is being | |
| 06:33 | comforted . So you know Fred , Mary , Fred | |
| 06:37 | , Mary . It's very clear in the writing who | |
| 06:40 | is saying what and since it's just two people , | |
| 06:43 | you don't consistently have to say that . So that's | |
| 06:46 | it . Writing dialogue is easy . Simply keep the | |
| 06:50 | exact words that the person is saying , along with | |
| 06:54 | any punctuation , that that sentence that they're saying needs | |
| 06:57 | within the quotation marks change paragraphs when each speaker speaks | |
| 07:03 | . And sometimes you don't always have to say who | |
| 07:07 | is saying what because it's already clear that does it | |
| 07:11 | for me . Now go off and have some happy | |
| 07:14 | writing |
Summarizer
DESCRIPTION:
This is a tutorial on using question marks and exclamation points correctly in quotes.
OVERVIEW:
Punctuating Dialogue Containing Other Punctuation Marks is a free educational video by ElaineVazquez.It helps students in grades 4 practice the following standards L.4.3.b , L.3.2.c, L.4.2.
This page not only allows students and teachers view Punctuating Dialogue Containing Other Punctuation Marks but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.
1. L.4.3.b : Choose punctuation for effect.*.
GRADES:
4
STANDARDS:
L.4.3.b
L.3.2.c
L.4.2
