: How do you convey nonverbal utterances? Like when you get irritated and say "tch" for example. I'm looking to do this in a 3rd person narrative context.

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Best way is to treat it as verbal and use what are called interjections, words that have no grammatical meaning but convey emotions. So many different words convey these utterances:

tch
um
ugh
gah
eh
huh
argh

The list can go on and on. Here's just one partial list of interjections.

A possible alternative is to convey it through the way the speech is delivered, such as "He snorted", and "he tutted", but this strikes me as a poor replacement.

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