No, it's not dialogue. It's from a book I'm editing. I could rephrase it so that I could just ignore the problem, but I really would like to know....
I told my English students to remember the sentence "I hit she" as a mnemonic for remembering the doer and the receiver. All students know that "I...
But if I asked you if you called out to your child when when they were leaving to spend the night with a friend, "Be kind!", most of you would say...
Separate names with a comma.