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  2. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of changes in form in indirect speech in English are given below. See also Sequence of tenses, and Uses of English verb forms § Indirect speech. It is raining hard. She says that it is raining hard. (no change) [4] She said that it was raining hard. (change of tense when the main verb is past tense) I have painted the ceiling blue.

  3. 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.

  4. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    Verbs often undergo tense changes in indirect speech. This commonly occurs in content clauses (typically that-clauses and indirect questions), when governed by a predicate of saying (thinking, knowing, etc.) which is in the past tense or conditional mood. In this situation the following tense and aspect changes occur relative to the original words:

  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).

  6. This Change in Speech May Predict Mild Cognitive Impairment ...

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    Changes in speech patterns may indicate that mild cognitive impairment is worsening to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.. Artificial intelligence was able to detect subtle changes in ...

  7. Should student gender, pronoun changes be reported to ... - AOL

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    “We must consider the negative toll of these ugly public debates on youth mental health and well-being,” said Kasey Suffredini, the organization’s vice president of advocacy and government ...

  8. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    One common way of performing speech acts is to use an expression, which indicates one speech act, and indeed performs this act, but also performs a further speech act, which is indirect. One may, for instance, say, "Peter, can you close the window?", thereby asking Peter whether he will be able to close the window, but also requesting that he ...

  9. Man's 'Santa-antics' get him stuck in chimney while running ...

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    A man who was running away from police has been arrested after getting stuck in a chimney while trying to hide from them, authorities said. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Fall River ...