Timeline for Grammatical correctness of continuing sentences off dialogue tags
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| Mar 7, 2021 at 16:35 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2021 at 16:18 | answer | added | Sunnyjohn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 1:05 | vote | accept | lanf | ||
| Mar 5, 2021 at 20:52 | answer | added | Donald Hosek | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 18:38 | comment | added | lanf | I feel like if it's being read-aloud, and you were to pause too long at the comma, the bit afterwards would sound like a subject-less sentence fragment. So perhaps it's the punctuation that I'm questioning as well, though it still reads as awkward without the comma, imo. I don't see any examples of a non-repeating subject in those links where there's punctuation separating the two verbs. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 16:01 | comment | added | Stuart F | This question about "said John" vs "John said" is somewhat relevant, although the answers aren't brilliant. The two forms are equivalent, and John is the subject of both (inversion of subject and verb is rare in English but not impossible). english.stackexchange.com/questions/67984/… | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 15:58 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I have more of a problem with << “Humbug!” said Scrooge; and walked across the room. >> I suppose I'd use a comma or ellipsis there. Fragments/deletions after a semicolon are pretty rare nowadays. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ... ie "It's a present for her," Malcolm said, and he thrust it in among Lyra's blankets. ↔ "It's a present for her[,]" said Malcolm, and he thrust it in among Lyra's blankets. → "It's a present for her[,]" said Malcolm, and thrust it in among Lyra's blankets. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 15:17 | comment | added | John Lawler | There's nothing ungrammatical about not repeating a subject; Conjunction Reduction and Conversational Deletion are among the most frequently applied syntactic rules in English. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 15:00 | history | migrated | from writing.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 3, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | F1Krazy | Welcome to Writing.SE! Since this is to do with analysing the grammar of an existing work of fiction, I feel like this is better suited to English.SE, and I'm going to migrate it there for you. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 14:31 | history | asked | bxw | CC BY-SA 4.0 |