ENG 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Potato Salad, Greeting Card, Apple Butter
Paragraphs and Dialogue: A Short Guide
Let’s Start with Paragraphs
Definition: A group of sentences of a single sentence that forms a unit
-length has nothing to do with whether or not a section of a paper is a paragraph
-a sentence or group of sentences that support one main idea
Imagine a picture of, like, a weird moth here.
When to Start a New Paragraph
1. When you start on a new topic
2. When you skip to a new time
3. When you skip to a new place
4. When a new person begins to speak
5. When you want to produce a dramatic effect
Now Let’s Talk About How to Write Dialogue
1. New paragraph for each new speaker
2. Punctuation goes outside the quotation marks before the dialogue, but inside them after
the dialogue
3. Actions by someone or something other than the same speaker get their own paragraphs.
Actions by the speaker stay in the same paragraph
Example:
The ear exploded. We woke up lying in the ditch 50 yards away from the burning wreckage.
Another car slowed down as it passed us, then sped away without stopping.
What happeed? asked Jaes.
The ar eploded, said Lil. “he sat up ad ruer her ald head. All of her haid had ee
scorched off in the explosion.
Are e dead! asked Tito. Gus, I thik e’re dead!
We’re ot dead! I shouted. I got up and looked down at my feet. My shoes were gone. My
socks were black and smoking.
Lil said, It feels like eeros are goe too. “he rued her forehead. Are the?
I was about to answer her when I heard a rumble in the distance. Actually, I felt it more than
I heard it. I could tell it was approaching, although. Somehow I knew it was coming for us.
We eed to hide, I said. Fast.
Lil sighed. “he tured to Jaes. Do I hae a eeros left at all?
No, said Jaes, apologetiall. No, the’re all goe. What aout ie?
Goe.
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