indirect speech

Word family nounindirectionindirectnessindirect objectindirect speechindirect taxadverbindirectlyadjectiveindirect

Related topics: Grammar

ˌindirect ˈspeech British EnglishBrE, indirect discourse American English (also reported speech) noun [uncountableU] technical

SLGa way of reporting what someone said without repeating their exact words. For example, in the sentence ‘Julia said that she didn’t want to go’, the clause ‘that she didn’t want to go’ is indirect speech. Her actual words were ‘I don’t want to go’. 间接引语〔即不引用原话，如Julia said that she didn’t want to go中that she didn’t want to go为间接引语；Julia的原话是I don’t want to go〕 → direct speech

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indirect speech• Paraphrase and summary of the arguments of other texts correspond to indirect speech.

单词	indirect speech
释义	indirect speech Word family nounindirectionindirectnessindirect objectindirect speechindirect taxadverbindirectlyadjectiveindirect Related topics: Grammar ˌindirect ˈspeech British EnglishBrE, indirect discourse American English (also reported speech) noun [uncountableU] technical SLGa way of reporting what someone said without repeating their exact words. For example, in the sentence ‘Julia said that she didn’t want to go’, the clause ‘that she didn’t want to go’ is indirect speech. Her actual words were ‘I don’t want to go’. 间接引语〔即不引用原话，如Julia said that she didn’t want to go中that she didn’t want to go为间接引语；Julia的原话是I don’t want to go〕 → direct speech Examples from the Corpus indirect speech• Paraphrase and summary of the arguments of other texts correspond to indirect speech.
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