: Re: Punctuation before / after em dash and speech mark I originally posted this question on the main English forum, but someone suggested it might be better posted here. Apologies if I have broken

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Examples 1 and 3 are fine. You can have a sharp break at the end of a line of dialogue. I'd slightly change 2.

'Come — ' He beckoned me closer with a finger.

I wouldn't use a comma after an M-dash, because the M-dash already indicates a pause, so the double pause doesn't quite work.

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How should dialog be formatted?

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