GRADE 4 READING & LANGUAGE · CHAPTER 5
Writing, punctuation & revision
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Writing conventions
Punctuate direct speech
Use quotation marks and punctuation to distinguish spoken words from a speaker tag.
AN EXAMPLE FROM THIS CHAPTER
Which sentence is punctuated as direct speech?
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Mia said, “I found it.”
The speaker's words are inside quotation marks, with a comma after said.
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