: Re: Proper way to punctuate an abrupt stopping of speech? I'd like to properly punctuate one of my characters being stopped in speech, followed by a sentence that explains that the character didn't

The dash seems right, but the capitalisation of the following sentence seems awkward to me. I don't have a formal justification for why it shouldn't follow the same rules as, for example, '"Yes," he said' - except to say that it reads in my head in a similar lilting sort of voice, ruining the "interruption" effect.

Perhaps something like:

"Yes, I thiâ€“"

He was not allowed to finish.

"Shut him up NOW!" the guard growled.

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