3. add quotation marks to
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
define the grammatical rules for
correct quotation used in dialog
and embedded text
identify correct quotation
punctuation including placement of
quotation marks, commas, lead-ins,
periods, etc.
create quoted dialog from a text
lacking it
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4. I should have been more careful, he said.
The boy didn't answer.
You have to talk to me.
Okay.
You wanted to know what the bad guys looked like. Now
you know. It may happen again. My job is to take care
of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill
anyone who touches you. Do you understand?
Yes.
He sat there cowled in the blanket. After a while he looked
up. Are we still the good guys? he said.
Yes. We're still the good guys.
And we always will be.
Yes. We always will be.
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What is
missing?Where are
all the
quotation
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psssssst…
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6. No no no… you misunderstood. They just happened to
notice right after the question how nice the “jeans” you
were wearing were.
…maybe they were remembering the jeans you were
wearing another day.
You know how hard it is for kids to keep focus.
That would totally make sense! ...if I had been wearing
jeans…
I was wearing a really nice pair of jeans on Friday…
There you go. The statement “You’ve got good jeans” still
applies even if you’re not wearing them.
…but…they probably meant genes.
Donovan Smith
Sarah Louise Harrell
Donovan Smith
Sarah Louise Harrell
Donovan Smith
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Sarah paused, “ .”
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