Meaning

2 senses
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dialogue, tag.

  2. A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)

    Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it.

    Begleitsatz

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
speech tag, attribution:

Forms

plural: dialogue tags
Singulardialogue tag
Pluraldialogue tags

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
tagB2speech tagattributionquotativetag lineannunciatory clausequotation marker

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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