1. Warm up Take out a piece of paper.
Create a three-five line dialogue between two people. Make sure you identify the speakers. Use all punctuation necessary.

2. Using Quotation Marks in Dialogue

3. Conversation between two or more people
What is dialogue?
Conversation between two or more people
What?
Yes.
You don’t say…
I can’t hear!

4. Shows what the characters are like
Purpose…
Moves the plot forward
Shows what the characters are like
More direct and concise than real life conversation

5. Direct Quotation
Represents a person’s exact speech or thoughts and is enclosed in quotation marks
Example: “Using dialogue in your writing makes your story come alive to the reader!” said Mrs. Brown.

6. Indirect Quotation
Represents a person’s speech or thoughts and is not enclosed in quotation marks
Example: Mrs. Brown said that using dialogue makes my story come to life.

7. What is a Signal / Expression?
A Signal identifies the speaker of a quotation
three categories of expressions- Introductory, Concluding, and Interrupting
Examples: John wondered, I said, replied Sally

8. Introductory Expression
Place a comma after an introductory expression and write the quotation as a full sentence.
Example: Sep Gibbons explained, “I think you’ve got my cat.”

9. Concluding Expression
When using a concluding expression:
1.End the quotation with a comma, question mark, or exclamation mark inside the quotation marks.
2.Write the concluding expression followed by a period.

10. Concluding Expressions (Cont.)
Example:
“But what makes you think I’ve got him?” asked Herriot.
* Concluding Expressions do not begin with capital letters.

11. Interrupting Expression with One Sentence
End the first part of the direct quotation with a comma and a quotation mark
place a comma after the interrupting expression
use a new set of quotation marks to enclose the rest of the quotation

12. Interrupting Expression (Cont.)
Example:
“Tell me,” he said, “about this cat you lost.”
“Well, Mr. Gibbons,” Helen replied, “you’d better take him.”

13. Interrupting Expression with Two Sentences
End the first quoted sentence with a comma, question mark, or exclamation mark and a quotation mark
Place a period after the interrupting expression
Use new quotation marks and end punctuation for second quotation.

14. Interrupting Expression with Two Sentences (Cont.)
Example:
“Well, that’s right good of you,” Sep answered. “We’ll have to be off if we’re going to catch the eight o’clock bus.”