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Meanings of reported speech in English
A linguistic technique to reproduce an utterance by putting it in a subordinate clause and modifying certain grammatical categories such as person, tense or mood.
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Examples for "indirect speech"
Examples for "indirect speech"
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Repression and debunking candour are comically mixed in such free indirect speech.
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The stories are largely related in indirect speech so the narrator's voice is dominant.
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No first-person or free- indirect speech here.
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At other times, the narrative itself takes on its protagonist's habits of thinking, a technique usually known as free indirect speech.
Usage of reported speech in English
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I look forward to a pleasant evening, a widely reported speech, and-
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Trusting to them how imperfect must have been a reported speech!
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Lincoln's remarks on the resolution form his first reported speech.
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Most of his comments were given in reported speech.
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One could see a readiness for dialogue, the paper cited Jones as saying in reported speech.
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In general use dialogue rather than reported speech.
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One cannot take reported speech too literally.
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His briefly- reported speech of six lines is destined to be weightier than the edicts of a king.
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All were targeted by Mr Trimble's wagging finger before I reached paragraph three of his reported speech.
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FitzSimons deploys many of the techniques of fiction, reworking reported speech as dialogue and employing the present tense throughout.
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I discovered a rather horrifying account of a reported speech by Steve Jobs about the state of public education in this country.
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On January 14, 1814, he made a long and well reported speech against a bill to encourage enlistments.
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Duffin breathes life into the reported speech and voices of the other characters: the Girl's controlling mother, tyrannical grandfather and terminally ill brother.