Let’s wrap up our mini-course with the basics of dialogue punctuation.

Overall, keep it simple. All spoken words go in quotation marks.

Periods and commas cozy up inside them.

Toss a comma between the quote and attribution.

For questions or exclamations, if the quote is the question or punch, put the mark inside. If the whole sentence asks a question or packs a wallop, the mark goes outside. Piece of cake, right?

Now, go ace that dialogue!