add the capital letters, speech marks and other missing punctuation marks.

Question

Please add the capital letters, speech marks and other missing punctuation marks in this conversation. did you know that hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water asked emma yes i know chuckled ryan i recently found this information from my science teacher at school will you stop talking about your fun facts and get back to your studies shouted sally

Answer 1

Katherine B. did such a great job at fixing all the punctuation!

Though when it comes to dialogue tags (verbs that follow a dialogue line, like "said" or "asked") it is almost always recommended, at least in fiction and creative nonfiction, to stick as much as possible to "said" so as not to distract the reader from what is being said in the dialogue. If the dialogue line itself (what is being said) is written with expertise, the reader will know that something is being shouted or asked. The dialogue tag is only really there to let the reader know, or remind the reader, who says what, not how they say it. The how they say it should be contained within the dialogue itself. I would also strongly suggest not using physical actions as dialogue tags—one cannot chuckle a sentence, but one can say a sentence and then chuckle. So for instance, I'd rewrite this sentence

"Yes, I know," chuckled Ryan.

Like this:

"Yes, I know," said Ryan (or Ryan said). He chuckled. "..."

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Since this is a dialogue, the first step is to divide it into paragraphs. Each speaker gets a new paragraph.

did you know that hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water asked emma

yes i know chuckled ryan i recently found this information from my science teacher at school

will you stop talking about your fun facts and get back to your studies shouted sally

Next capitalize the start of new sentences, the pronoun "I", and proper nouns like names. I've underlined the changes.

Did you know that hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water asked Emma

Yes I know chuckled Ryan I recently found this information from my science teacher at school

Will you stop talking about your fun facts and get back to your studies shouted Sally

Next add punctuation. Emma's dialogue is a question within the sentence, so her question needs to be within quotation marks with a period at the end.

"Did you know that hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water?" asked Emma.

Ryan's dialogue is two sentences. Both need quotes around what Ryan is saying, and a comma between what he is saying and the description of what he did (chuckled). It also needs periods to show where the first and second sentences end.

"Yes, I know," chuckled Ryan. "I recently found this information from my science teacher at school."

Sally is expressing a strong feeling and said to be shouting, so her quoted statement would get an exclamation point, and a period at the end.

"Will you stop talking about your fun facts and get back to your studies!" shouted Sally.

The final conversation with punctuation should look like this:

"Did you know that hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water?" asked Emma.

"Yes, I know," chuckled Ryan. "I recently found this information from my science teacher at school."

"Will you stop talking about your fun facts and get back to your studies!" shouted Sally.