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Noun Concept
Categories: Semantics (linguistics), Syntactic entities, Semantic units, Articles with short description, Semantics
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indirect discourse  indirect speech  reported speech  Indirect quote  indirect speech in English
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A report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'") WordNet 3.0
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A report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'") WordNet 3.0
A report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'" would be modified to "he said he is a fool") Open English WordNet
In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. Wikipedia
A form of speech Wikipedia Disambiguation
Speech expressing things other people have said without quoting Wikidata
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. OmegaWiki
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report
narrative
ANTONYM
direct discourse
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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indirect discourse
Wikipedia
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indirect speech
Wikidata
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indirect speech
OmegaWiki
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indirect speech, reported speech
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indirect discourse, Indirect quote, indirect speech in English, indirect statement, reported speech

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