enhancing your writing direct speech and speech marks
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Enhancing your writing
Direct Speech and speech marks
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Direct speech
When we use direct speech in our writing:
• The exact words spoken must be put inside
speech marks. “ ”• The first spoken word must have a capital
letter.
• When a new speaker begins, we must start a new line.
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Direct speech
When we use direct speech in our writing:
• We need a piece of punctuation before the final speech mark.
• It will be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation mark – never a full stop unless it is at the very end of the sentence.
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Direct speech
Here are some examples
of direct speech.
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Direct Speech
I’ve hurt my leg!
“I’ve hurt my leg!” moaned the boy.
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Direct speech
Can you take a deep breath?
“Can you take a deep breath?” asked the doctor.
You can put ‘who said it’ after the direct speech:
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Direct speech
I like this dress.
The woman said, “I like this dress.”
Or you can put ‘who said it’ before the direct speech:
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Direct speech
“If I stick out my tongue,” the woman explained, “I look very silly.”
If I stick out my tongue, I look very silly.
You can even put ‘who said it’ in the middle of a sentence if you want to make an interesting sentence:
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Use the correct punctuation to write what is being said.
I’ve caught three fish.
The train will leave in ten
minutes!
Do you know what
type of angle
this is?
I love ice cream.
I am a clever girl.
Direct Speech