Post by account_disabled on Dec 10, 2023 4:27:00 GMT
Each publishing house inserts punctuation into the dialogues in its own way. I think that a writer must find his own modus scribendi also when writing dialogues: show the reader his approach and always maintain that, at least until he publishes with a publisher. I have read conflicting opinions on the use of punctuation in the presence of corporals or in any case of quotation marks: should a comma be placed after the closing of corporals? And the point? In this post I give my opinion and illustrate my rules - the current ones, which have changed over time - if we want to call them that.
I don't claim to be right, but I Phone Number Data prefer to use my method in my stories. What are corporals and what are they for? Corporals are not punctuation . So writing “ » , ” is not an error. Corporals are signs that distinguish a dialogue. They show the reader that those words or phrases are directly spoken by the character and not by the narrator. The use of a comma after the period In some dialogues both the spoken and narrated forms are present, in the dialogue-narration or dialogue-narration-dialogue structures. In this case, should we use commas or not? Here's how I do it.
Preferred form: comma after the closing of the corporals "Are you leaving so soon?" asked the woman. Incorrect form: no comma after the corporals “Are you leaving so soon?” the woman asked. This form is not correct for me: it doesn't "sound" good to my eyes, to my reading. Corporals are not punctuation marks, so it's strange to see a lowercase letter after a question mark. A pause is also missing: if you remove the comma, which establishes a sort of interruption in the dialogue, you are forced to read everything in a row, as if it were a single sentence. The corporals are not enough to create that necessary pause, that break between dialogue and narration.
I don't claim to be right, but I Phone Number Data prefer to use my method in my stories. What are corporals and what are they for? Corporals are not punctuation . So writing “ » , ” is not an error. Corporals are signs that distinguish a dialogue. They show the reader that those words or phrases are directly spoken by the character and not by the narrator. The use of a comma after the period In some dialogues both the spoken and narrated forms are present, in the dialogue-narration or dialogue-narration-dialogue structures. In this case, should we use commas or not? Here's how I do it.
Preferred form: comma after the closing of the corporals "Are you leaving so soon?" asked the woman. Incorrect form: no comma after the corporals “Are you leaving so soon?” the woman asked. This form is not correct for me: it doesn't "sound" good to my eyes, to my reading. Corporals are not punctuation marks, so it's strange to see a lowercase letter after a question mark. A pause is also missing: if you remove the comma, which establishes a sort of interruption in the dialogue, you are forced to read everything in a row, as if it were a single sentence. The corporals are not enough to create that necessary pause, that break between dialogue and narration.