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IRAM FARID
Quaid-e-Azam Law College Lahore
LLB-PART-I
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Dialogue:
You know what dialogue tags are he said, she said and the like.
EXAMPLE: "If you try," he said, his smile persuasive, "you'll find it's
easier than it looks."
NO COMMA
Incorrect: "Watch out!," She yelled. "Do you want to get hurt?"
Correct: "Watch out!" she yelled. "Do you want to get hurt?"
Dashes and Ellipses
Spacing
When one character stops speaking and the focus moves to another
character's speech or actions, begin a new paragraph.
Example: "Watch out!" she yelled. "Do you want to get hurt?"
Capitalization
"If Charles says anything about the dog, tell him to stuff it."
"If Charles says anything about the dog, tell him to stuff it."
EXAMPLE:
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five
thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
My dear Mr. Bennet, replied his wife, how can you be so tiresome! You must
know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them
My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not
pretend to be anything extraordinary nowshe ought to give over thinking of
her own beauty.