Question

Read each example of dialogue from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Which dialogue is correctly punctuated?

"I kiss your hand, miss" said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.
"I kiss your hand, miss," said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.
"I kiss your hand, miss." said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.
"I kiss your hand, miss". said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.

Answer 1

The correctly punctuated dialogue is: "I kiss your hand, miss," said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.

Step-by-step explanation:

The dialogue that is correctly punctuated is:

"I kiss your hand, miss," said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.

This example is correctly punctuated because it uses quotation marks to enclose the spoken words, and it also includes a comma before the closing quotation mark to separate the dialogue tag (said Mr. Lorry) from the spoken words.

Answer 2

The 2nd option -

"I kiss your hand, miss," said Mr. Lorry, with the manners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.

Step-by-step explanation:

You would use commas at the end of a quote instead of periods or anything else during the dialogue of the story.

There are exceptions to this rule though. If you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag, then you use periods.

Additionally, you can also end with a period if there is an action between TWO separate statements.

There are a few other cases like using a en-dash if you're interrupting a sentence with dialogue and using open quotation marks for long pieces of dialogue, but for the most part, you use commas to end your dialogue.

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