Attribution Worksheet

1) A reporter should attribute the details at the end of the first sentence.
2) The general rule cant be applied without exception if there is a second quote in the second sentence.
3)I think attribution occurs a lot in a news story because you have to put them everywhere after there is a quote, and we tend to have lots of quotes.
4) An attribution is often found at the beginning towards the end of the story and end of the sentence.
5) As many as needed can be quoted in a story, because everyone needs to be included and you need to know who said what.
6) When starting a new paragraph a reporter should not start the paragraph when asked, because we already know you asked them a question you don't need to tell us again.
7) An attributions should start at the beginning of the sentence when you want to start with person said instead of said person.
8) An attribution should start at the end of the sentence when you want to end with said person not person said.
9) An attribution should appear in the middle of a sentence when you want to combine two different quotes from the same person.
10) You should you use tone words for verbs for an attribution in a news story.
11) The tense you should have in your attribution depends on what the interviewer says his or her quotes, how they feel.
12) Speakers should be identified on first reference with both first and last name.
13) Speakers should be identified on second reference by just there last name.
14) The rules for comma and period placement at the end of a direct quotation are that periods should be inside quotation.
15) The difference between a direct and indirect quote is that a direct quote has there quote word for word while an indirect quot has there quote paraphrased,
16) In an attribution tag the speaker comes first then the attribution word.
17) It is appropriate to put the attribution word before the speaker when all of this happens before the quote, not after.
18) " I'm proud of each and every person on this team." Said Coach Ed Hullender.
19)   Junior Laura Duke, the only Wheeler High student to audition who is not currently on the dance team said, "Dancing in the Super Bowl will be a once in a lifetime opportunity."
20) Coach Steve Lattizori said," They're not real wrestlers, and i think it actually hurts the sport. I wish they would change there names from wrestling to acting."
21) Correct.
22) In correct because the attribution should have gone in front of the quote.
23) In correct because the attribution should have been in front of the quote that was given.
24) Correct.
25) In correct there should have been a period instead of a comma in the end quotation before the attribution.
26) In correct because there should have not been a coma after the quotation marks instead there should have been a period in the quotation marks.