Apparently A Lot Of People Get Dialogue Punctuation Wrong Despite Having An Otherwise Solid Grasp Of

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

There's actually something really important about the fact that Bruce hates guns for good reasons but still understands that's its important for himself and the robins to know how to handle them safely which is why I absolutely hate it when some writers today try to retcon it so that Bruce doesn't teach the robins to handle guns

Group of friends who are close because they all have the same superpower except no they don't.

This is super interesting and I'm really grateful that you provided me with an answer to why planets are on the same plane. It was in the back of my mind for years it just had never bothered me enough to check

I would devour seven times seventy seven more full paragraphs of planet or otherwise astronomy facts, thank you so much for sharing it

(Would you by any chance, want to share more?)

For reasons I'll not yet disclose

Also, if you want, share astro fun facts in reblogs and tags