2. “Ask him,” Jem whispered.
“You ask him, you’re the oldest.”
“That’s why you oughta ask him.”
“Atticus,” I said, “did you see Mr.
Arthur?”
Atticus looked sternly around his
newspaper at me: “ I did not.”
3. Rules
1. Start a the remarks of each speaker as a new
paragraph, no matter how brief.
2. Closely related bits of narrative can be
included in the paragraph with the dialogue.
3. If the audience knows who the speaker is,
you don’t need to always include he/she
said.
4. Periods, commas, question marks, and
exclamation points go inside quotation
marks.
