: Re: Which one is the correct dialogue punctuation format? I am writing my first novel and this the very first confusion I would like to clarify. As I am not a native English speaker, I find it
The difference is that the first sentence doesn't have a tag. It's a line of dialogue followed by a complete sentence.
The second sentence is dialogue followed by a dialogue tag.
Your first set of examples is punctuated correctly — when you use a tag, the dialogue ends in a comma, and the tag starts with a lowercase letter. This also applies to action tags.
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