Activity for Domenic
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #24748 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #24147 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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Dash and space usage for dialogue interruptions, stuttering, starting over I'm hoping for guidance on several very similar situations, which I suspect are all meant to be punctuated and spaced differently. Stuttering How would you write someone stuttering out the word "you"? Here is my best guess: > “What do y-y-you want?” That is, hyphens (not en or em dashes), and no ... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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Dialogue continuations by another speaker: capitalize or no? Which of these is correct? > I showed him the woman. “Blood loss is a problem. She needs the wound cauterized.” > > His eyes widened, “I can’t do that! Her face—” > > “—is half scraped off. She’s not going to care about a burn.” vs. > I showed him the woman. “Blood loss is a problem. She needs t... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |