What is the grammatically correct way to write dialoque?

Question

When your writing a story do you cut off the line after one person finishes speaking and then put the response on the next line??

Example: "Hey buddy how was your weekend"
"Great how was yours?"
"Awesome"

That's how you do it right? Oh and do you put the punctuation inside or outside of the quotes??

You think that 10 years of English class would sink in...but i guess not thanks for the help

Answer 1

It seems you've answered your own question! ^-^

When two people are talking, they can NEVER speak to eachother within the same paragraph. For example...

"I'm tired," Whitney stated as she stretched her arms above her head. "Do you think we should just stay home today, Mom?"
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Note, it's okay for two quotes to be in the same paragraph IF it's the same person speaking!
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"Yes, I think so!" Her mother replied. "We can drink hot cocoa!"

"Sounds great!" Whitney jumped up from her seat. "I'll go get the marshmallows!"

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And as you also saw above, the punctuation all goes inside the quotation marks. A comma is used when the sentence is going to be continued, otherwise, use a period or whatever else it is that you want to use.

Another example....

WRONG: She flung the book across the room and said, "I HATE homework,".

RIGHT: "I HATE homework," she said as she flung the book across the room.
...or...
She flung the book across the room and said, "I HATE homework."

Answer 2

The good thing about writing is that you can be creative.
Whatever anyone else is going to tell you, there are undoubtedly a million examples (half of them from Joyce) that break the rule they just gave you.
Do it anyway you want, just be consistent.

If you must conform to someone else's standard, just do what they do in the books you read. Traditionally, punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks:

"Hey Buddy, how was your weekend?"
"Great, how was yours?"
"Awesome!"

unless it's a period followed by "he said",

"Awesome," he said slowly.

And this wouldn't have been in your English class, so don't worry.

Answer 3

new line for each speaker. indent. punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.