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dialogue tags

dialogue tags is the plural of dialogue tag.

Meaning of dialogue tag

Noun

dialogue tag (plural dialogue tags)

  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.

Questions about dialogue tags

What is dialogue tags the plural of?
Dialogue tags is the plural of dialogue tag.

Words near dialogue tags in the dictionary

  1. dialogue balloon
  2. dialogue balloons
  3. dialogue box
  4. dialogue boxes
  5. dialogue tag
  6. dialogue tags
  7. dialogued
  8. dialogueless
  9. dialoguer
  10. dialoguers
  11. dialogues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dialogue tags (page history and authors); dialogue tag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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