Task description: This week during Writing, we are learning to accurately punctuate and use speech marks in our writing. Speech marks are punctuation marks that are used in pairs in various forms of writing to indicate speech or begin a direct quote. They are also called quotation marks and inverted commas. Speech marks are usually used when a character or a person is talking in a text or piece of writing, in some cases it can be used to show something that is said such as a quote from somewhere.
Many people this quotation marks and speech marks are the same but have you ever thought what the difference between quotation marks and speech marks are? Well here’s the difference, in writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
Quotation marks may be used to indicate that the meaning of the word or phrase they surround should be taken to be different from that typically associated with it, and are often used in this way to express irony. For example, in the sentence ‘The lunch lady plopped a glob of “food” onto my tray.’ The quotation marks around the word food show it is being called ironically. They are also sometimes used to emphasise a word or phrase, although this is usually considered incorrect.
The general rules of direct speech are:
- Each new character’s speech starts on a new line.
- Speech is opened with speech marks.
- Each line of speech starts with a capital.
- The line of speech ends with a comma, exclamation mark or question mark.
- A reporting clause is used at the end (said Jane, shouted Paul, replied Mum).
- A full stop goes after the reporting clause.
- If the direct speech in the sentence is broken up by information about who is speaking, add in a comma or question mark or exclamation mark to end the first piece of speech and a full stop or another comma before the second piece (before the speech marks), for example: “It’s lovely,” she sighed, “but I can’t afford it right now.” / “I agree!” said Kate. “Let’s go!”
My highlight for writing this week is finishing the task because it was really easy and fun to do. I wouldn’t mind doing things like this more often. I don’t have a lowlight for writing this week as I enjoyed writing this week a lot and I didn’t find anything hard. The task was really different from what we usually do for writing. I’m really proud of how I went with this writing task so I don’t have anything for me to work on this week for writing. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
My quote of the day: You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page