48 / PART ONE: THE BASICS punctuation mark would be a comma and the following speech would start with a small letter instead of a capital letter. Look at the following example: ‘I do wish,’ he sighed, ‘that you wouldn’t get so upset.’ There is a comma after ‘sighed’ and ‘that’ does not begin with a capital letter. When the speaker has finished speaking and the story or narrative is resumed, a new paragraph is started: ‘You invited her,’ retorted Brian. Ruth flounced out of the room, slamming the door. She was furious; she had been so sure her sister would refuse the invitation. Inverted commas are also used to enclose quotations and titles: She went to see the film ‘Sense and Sensibility’. ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ is a famous proverb. The expression ‘the mind’s eye’ comes from Shake- speare’s play ‘Hamlet’. Notice that the full stop has been placed outside the inverted commas when the quotation or title is at the end of the sentence as it forms part of the sentence. Returning to the narrative Quoting correctly