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Meanings of reported speech in inglés

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.
        The Guardian
        2
        The stories are largely related in indirect speech so the narrator's voice is dominant.
        The Irish Times
        3
        No first-person or free- indirect speech here.
        The Guardian
        4
        At other times, the narrative itself takes on its protagonist's habits of thinking, a technique usually known as free indirect speech.
        The Guardian
        Usage of reported speech in inglés
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        I look forward to a pleasant evening, a widely reported speech, and-
        The Best British Short Stories of 1922
        2
        Trusting to them how imperfect must have been a reported speech!
        An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
        3
        Lincoln's remarks on the resolution form his first reported speech.
        McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
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        Most of his comments were given in reported speech.
        The Irish Times
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        One could see a readiness for dialogue, the paper cited Jones as saying in reported speech.
        Reuters
        6
        In general use dialogue rather than reported speech.
        The Guardian
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        One cannot take reported speech too literally.
        The Irish Times
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        His briefly- reported speech of six lines is destined to be weightier than the edicts of a king.
        The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884
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        All were targeted by Mr Trimble's wagging finger before I reached paragraph three of his reported speech.
        The Irish Times
        10
        FitzSimons deploys many of the techniques of fiction, reworking reported speech as dialogue and employing the present tense throughout.
        The Guardian
        11
        I discovered a rather horrifying account of a reported speech by Steve Jobs about the state of public education in this country.
        Wired
        12
        On January 14, 1814, he made a long and well reported speech against a bill to encourage enlistments.
        Daniel Webster
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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.
        The Guardian
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