Please check this dialogue
Chad - What happened between you last night?
Timmy - What has she told you?
Chad - She told me you were being weird and were yelling at her. (1)
Timmy - Really?
Chad - Yes. Is that not what happened?
Timmy - No.
Chad - Then, what happened according to you? (2)
Timmy - We were just discussing a few things. (3)
Questions:
(1) Is "were being weird" and "were yelling" natural here?
(2) How would you phrase this sentence?
(3) Would it be more natural to say "We just discussed a few things"?
Top answer
That dialogue is all OK, except that in this kind of script-style dialogue we usually use colons, not dashes (which you have in any case typed as hyphens), like this: Chad: What happened between you last night? Timmy: What has she told you? "being weird" is OK if "weird" is what you mean.
- That dialogue is all OK, except that in this kind of script-style dialogue we usually use colons, not dashes (which you have in any case typed as hyphens), like this: Chad: What happened between you last night?
- Timmy: What has she told you?
- "being weird" is OK if "weird" is what you mean.
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That dialogue is all OK, except that in this kind of script-style dialogue we usually use colons, not dashes (which you have in any case typed as hyphens), like this:
Chad: What happened between you last night?
Timmy: What has she told you?
"being weird" is OK if "weird" is what you mean.
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