"How are you?" she asked. How are you," she asked. Which is the correct way to punctuate in this situation? I was doing it the second way and my boyfriend was proofreading my work and said its the first way. I believe that it's entire possible that its that way, but want to make sure I do it right, so I decided to ask all of you.
If the only thing she says is "How are you" then yes, the first is correct, being: "How are you?" she said But if it's something like "How are you," she said, "Is that wound finally healed?" Being that both the sentences can be joined with a comma if their both questions. I'm pretty sure that's write, but I'm not a genius so if anyone finds fault with that let me know.
The first way. You may find this helpful: He said, she said - Mechanics of Dialogue Sorry, seelifein69. as written that would be a run on sentence (comma splice) without a question mark: Also, a continuation will not begin with a capitalized word.
