39a Signal direct quotation.

39a
Signal direct quotation.

The crowd chanted Yes, we can as they waited for the speech to begin.

She smiled and said, Son, this is one incident that I will never forget.

Use quotation marks to enclose the words of each speaker within running dialogue. Mark each shift in speaker with a new paragraph.

“I want no proof of their affection,” said Elinor; “but of their engagement I do.”

“I am perfectly satisfied of both.”

“Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them.”—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility