AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
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Revise: Punctuation for effectA speech tag, such as ‘Maya whispered’, identifies who speaks.
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GCSE English Language · key term
Words identifying who speaks, and sometimes how, such as ‘Maya whispered’ or ‘he asked’.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Punctuation for effectA speech tag, such as ‘Maya whispered’, identifies who speaks.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Words identifying who speaks and sometimes how they speak, such as ‘she whispered’ or ‘Sam asked’.
When checking dialogue, distinguish a speech tag such as ‘she said’ from a separate action such as ‘she turned away’.
In dialogue, distinguish a speech tag from a separate action: “Wait,” she said. “Wait.” She raised her hand.
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There is no extra comma after the question mark. ‘She’ remains lower case because the speech tag continues the sentence.