‘Red big bus’ or ‘big red bus’?
Dialogue: how to punctuate it
‘How to punctuate dialogue,’ she said.
All about grammar: the rules of morphology (word formation), syntax (word order) and phonology (sounds) of the English language.
Both descriptive and prescriptive rules will be addressed. Descriptive rules are the actual rules of a language, those used naturally by native speakers, for example the order of adjectives before a noun (big red house not *red big house). Prescriptive rules are imposed on speakers by people who have their own ideas about how a language should work, for example not splitting an infinitive (‘to go boldly’ or ‘boldly to go’ instead of ‘to boldly go’).
‘Red big bus’ or ‘big red bus’?
‘How to punctuate dialogue,’ she said.