Feo Takahari
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This is another one that came up while editing that Swedish My Little Pony fanfic. I suggested a couple different forms the author could use to revise some dialogue, and he chose an unusual but pretty one that I'm personally fond of. One character has just put some candies on a table, and is making an analogy to dating:
I realized after I made the suggestion that I don't remember whether "is" and "are" should be capitalized in this context. On the one hand, they're continuations of previous sentences, rather than the beginnings of new sentences, and continuations aren't capitalized when dialogue is split using commas rather than ellipses. On the other hand, when dialogue is split using commas, the splits never contain complete sentences, and since there are capitalized complete sentences here, it may be that the dialogue should be capitalized like complete sentences, too.
I'm willing to risk minor grammatical errors in my own stories, but I don't want to introduce them in other people's stories. Since this form is so unusual, I wasn't able to track down examples on the Internet to compare it to. Is anyone familiar here with the capitalization rules for this form?
“Okay, so this...” Pinkie indicated the candy in the center. “...is the stallion. And these...” She indicated the surrounding candies. “...are the mares who like the stallion."
I realized after I made the suggestion that I don't remember whether "is" and "are" should be capitalized in this context. On the one hand, they're continuations of previous sentences, rather than the beginnings of new sentences, and continuations aren't capitalized when dialogue is split using commas rather than ellipses. On the other hand, when dialogue is split using commas, the splits never contain complete sentences, and since there are capitalized complete sentences here, it may be that the dialogue should be capitalized like complete sentences, too.
I'm willing to risk minor grammatical errors in my own stories, but I don't want to introduce them in other people's stories. Since this form is so unusual, I wasn't able to track down examples on the Internet to compare it to. Is anyone familiar here with the capitalization rules for this form?