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  2. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.

  3. Yes–no question - Wikipedia

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    In form and semantics, it is a straightforward yes–no question, which can be answered either "Yes, I can" or "No, I cannot". There is, however, an indirect speech act (which Clark calls an elective construal) that can optionally be inferred from the question, namely "please pass the mustard". Such indirect speech acts flout Grice's maxim of ...

  4. I Wish My Teacher Knew - Wikipedia

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    Doull Elementary received numerous donations of school supplies for its students due to answers such as "I Wish My Teacher Knew I don't have pencils to do my homework." The story was featured nationally on ABC World News Tonight , which reported that Schwartz had started a "movement" with teachers across the country copying her assignment to ...

  5. Verbum dicendi - Wikipedia

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    A complement of a verbum dicendi can be direct or indirect speech. Direct speech is a single unit of linguistic object that is '"mentioned" rather than used.' [1] In contrast, indirect speech is a proposition whose parts make semantic and syntactic contribution to the whole sentence just like parts of the matrix clause (i.e. the main clause/sentence, as opposed to an embedded clause).

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  8. Latin indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Indirect speech, also known as reported speech, indirect discourse (US), or ōrātiō oblīqua (/ ə ˈ r eɪ ʃ ɪ oʊ ə ˈ b l aɪ k w ə / or / oʊ ˈ r ɑː t ɪ oʊ ɒ ˈ b l iː k w ə /), [1] is the practice, common in all Latin historical writers, of reporting spoken or written words indirectly, using different grammatical forms.

  9. Jan. 6: By the numbers - AOL

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    A masked rioter in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) A lot of attendees are believed to have peeled off as the siege turned violent.