Clear Character Speech
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Clear Character Speech
Add the punctuation
Rewrite each sentence using speech marks and the correct punctuation. Put the comma after the speaker tag when it comes before the spoken words.
Choose the right punctuation
Select the correctly punctuated sentence in each group.
- Tevita asked, “Where are the shells?”
- Tevita asked “Where are the shells?”
- Tevita asked, “Where are the shells.”
- Tevita asked, Where are the shells?
- Finn cried, “We reached the summit!”
- Finn cried “We reached the summit!”
- Finn cried, “We reached the summit.”
- Finn cried, We reached the summit!
Match the punctuation job
Match each punctuation feature with what it does in a sentence of direct speech.
- Speech marks
- Comma after a speaker tag
- Question mark
- Exclamation mark
- Full stop
- Ends a spoken question
- Ends a spoken statement
- Separates the tag from speech that follows
- Show the words a character says
- Ends speech that expresses strong feeling
Write a character's line
Invent a character and write one line of direct speech with a speaker tag. Use speech marks and choose punctuation that fits the character's words. Then check your sentence.
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