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6.4 dialogue tags
- 1. UNIT 6.4 Memoirs: Exploring Personal Challenges
- 3. What is a dialogue tag? Also often referred to as an attribution, a dialogue tag is a small phrase either before, after, or in between the actual dialogue itself. For example: “Did you get my letter?” asked Katie. The phrase “asked Katie” is the dialogue tag in the sentence.
- 4. How To Use Dialogue Tags Dialogue tags are found in three different places: before, after, or in the middle of dialogue. Depending on where the dialogue tags are, you use different punctuation and capitalization.
- 5. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag Before the Dialogue How it works: Use a comma after the dialogue tag. If the dialogue is the beginning of a sentence, capitalize the first letter. End the dialogue with the appropriate punctuation (period, exclamation point, or question mark), but keep it INSIDE the quotation marks.
- 6. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag Before the Dialogue When dialogue tags are before the dialogue it looks like this: Meghan asked, “Are you coming to my party?”
- 7. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag After the Dialogue When dialogue tags are used after the dialogue it looks like this: “Are you coming to my party?” Meghan asked. Or “Are you coming to my party?” asked Meghan.
- 8. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag After the Dialogue How it works: Punctuation still goes INSIDE quotation marks. Unless the dialogue tag begins with a proper noun, it is not capitalized. End the dialogue tag with appropriate punctuation.
- 9. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag in the Middle of the Dialogue When dialogue tags are used in the middle of dialogue it looks like this: “The car lights,” she explained, “aren’t bright enough to drive at night.”
- 10. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag in the Middle of the Dialogue How it works: A comma is used before the dialogue tag and goes INSIDE quotation marks. Unless the dialogue tag begins with a proper noun, it is not capitalized.
- 11. How To Use Dialogue Tags Tag in the Middle of the Dialogue How it works: A comma is used after the dialogue tag, OUTSIDE of quotation marks, to reintroduce the dialogue. End the dialogue with the appropriate punctuation (period, exclamation point, or question mark), but keep it INSIDE the quotation marks.