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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Columba
Columba
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8:42pm, 22 Sep 2019
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By all means. Spellcheckers are there to be blamed.
Cyclops
Cyclops
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More help please. I am teaching Y5 and trying to remember what the bit of direct speech which says who is talking and how (Mum said wearily etc) is called. Google has come up with 'dialogue tag' but I've never heard that before. Is that modern, American?? What did we used to call it in school in England a long time ago?
Columba
Columba
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8:57pm, 9 Oct 2019
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I don't remember calling it anything. Though yes, I can see that it is a Thing, and must have a name.
Northern Exile
Northern Exile
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Do you mean reported speech?
Northern Exile
Northern Exile
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t-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html
Northern Exile
Northern Exile
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Sorry, bad copy:

perfect-english-grammar.com
Columba
Columba
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9:43pm, 9 Oct 2019
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I don't think it's that.
Columba
Columba
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9:44pm, 9 Oct 2019
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But I still don't know what it is.
um
um
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10:46pm, 9 Oct 2019
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Was it just 'speech tag' in UK english?

A speech tag marks dialogue as dialogue, attributes it to its speaker and can add additional contextual information. The simplest speech tags are ‘he said’, ‘she said’, etc. More complex tags can run to a paragraph or more, describing the actions or attitude of the speaker.
Love Lettuce
Love Lettuce
Oct 2019
11:31pm, 9 Oct 2019
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I know it as a speech tag from my school days

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