Today we take a look at dialogue tags: what they are and how to use them effectively in your stories to help your reader.
There are a few basic differences between Portuguese and English adjectives, like the use of gender and their placement in a sentence. In this guide, you’ll learn more than 50 frequently used adjectives in Portuguese and how to use them correctly. ...
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...
as in “You can take me to the train station now: I am ready to leave.” Each of these independent clauses can function on its own, but with the use of a colon, the second clause clarifies the first. Capitalize the first
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 ...
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. ...
Here I would like to give you some advice on how to speak good English in terms of the experience I got from being a teacher for many language training schools and being interpreter for government as well as embassies. There are 3-D methods(Dialogue, Discussion and Debate)to improve your ...
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 ...
Use quotation marks to quote a source directly, show dialogue, signal the titles of short works, doubt the validity of a word, discuss a word without its intended meaning, or differentiate a nickname. Several other essential rules exist for correctly using quotation marks, including when to use...
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, ...