Ireland park and bill Thomas meet at the airport, they introduce themselves and have a chat listen to the dialogue and fill in the following table. Fun thing greeting and self instruction response asking someone to use your first name response something said when leaving someone you just meet r...
According to statistician Ben Blatt, Stephen King uses one~lyadverb for every 100 words he writes (see Blatt’s bookNabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve). But what adverbs does he use? Often, the adverbs make his dialogue seem more natural (boldadded by me): ‘The price on this one isve...
Today we take a look at dialogue tags: what they are and how to use them effectively in your stories to help your reader.
My mother emailed me last week to ask if she was using the word “nor” correctly, which brings us to today’s post: the use of either or and neither nor.
The students may be asked to reconstruct the dialogue by referring only to the pictures. Adult students are usually too self-conscious to‘act’ the dialogues in class and this is a good compromise. It is an extremely valuable exercise in recall and helps to lay the foundations of speech. ...
Em dash: The em dash (—) is slightly longer than the en dash and is used to signify a break, add additional information, introduce a concept, express dialogue, and replace other punctuation. Double hyphen: The double hyphen (–) features two individual hyphens side by side and has the ...
5.Introducing a quote: Colons are used when teeing up a quoted source, as in the sentence "As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: ‘To be or not to be, that is the question.’” 6.Writing dialogue: You can use a colon before quotation marks when writing dialogue (although a comma is more ...
To punctuate dialogue correctly, there are a few rules you should know: The correct use of quotation marks The correct use of dialogue tags The correct use of question and exclamation marks The correct use of em-dashes and ellipses Capitalization rules ...
Sometimes things which are without life as we conceive it and which, properly speaking, belong to the neuter gender, are, by a figure of speech called personification, changed into either the masculine or feminine gender, as, for instance, we say of the sun, He is rising; of the moon, ...
1.Learn hoe to use infinitive correctly. 2.Practice using the expressions ofbank services. Ability objective 1.To be able to use theinfinitivecorrectly Emotion objective 2.To know how toask for and give information concerning bank services. Teaching Important Points 1.To be able to use theinfin...