When Characters Speak: Formatting Dialogue
Grammar
Quotation Marks and Dialogue
Quotation marks are used to identify words that someone has said. You’ll often find them in fiction, where they signify dialogue, the words spoken by the characters. In newspapers, journalists use quotation marks to signify that something is a direct quote from a person in the article. In academic papers, quotation marks can signify that you
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Are You Dangling Participles?
What Is a Participle? Before we talk about what it means to dangle a participle, we have to answer the question What is a participle? It’s a tough question because participles have a few different jobs. Today, we’re only going to talk about their job that makes them look like adjectives. They tell you more about
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