Definition of reported speech in English:

reported speech

nounrɪˌpɔːtɪd ˈspiːtʃrəˌpɔrdəd ˈspitʃ

mass noun

A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g. he said that he would go, based on I will go).
转述引语（如I will go转为 he said that he would go），转告引述。亦称INDIRECT SPEECH . 比较DIRECT SPEECH
Also called indirect speech
Contrasted with direct speech
Example sentencesExamples
- When a reported matter is introduced by a reporting verb in the past tense, the shift from direct to reported speech is accompanied by a back-shift of the verb.
- To shift from ‘I want to know’ to ‘I wanted to know,’ is moving from speech to reported speech, and between the first moment and the second there is a temporal/spatial distance.
- His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’
- In reported speech - which they do not explain how they got hold of - they claim Blair told Frei: ‘I'll see what I can do, but only under the following conditions: nothing of this conversation can be made public.’
- Recent studies have shown how reported speech can work in interaction, giving participants a way of dealing with possible tensions and signalling intended frames.
- Richardson combats the mythic sweep of Dryden's heroic spectaculars with the minutia of reported speech and dress: his is the epic of the everyday.
- In addition to Rage's raising of men's pitches in the reported speech of the song's lyrics, another common theme in female gangsta rap is the sexual manipulation of men.
- The use of says with a first-person singular pronoun is common in representations of reported speech in numerous American dialects.
- Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel.
- This case is a good example of why one should be careful about making fun of public figures based on reported speech errors.
- That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text.
- This is indeed found in the song ‘She said you hurt her so,’ representing the reported speech transposition of ‘She said, ‘He hurt me so’.’
- ‘And he turns round and says’: A baffling prefix to reported speech, common in working-class southern England since the 1960s.
- Win employs reported speech more widely, with expressions such as ‘which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well’.
- What follows this statement is all reported speech, if we follow the frame, which will jump us from the back porch to Janie's story.
- That is indeed central to reported speech - putting something into the reporter's own words rather than just parroting them from another source.
- Janie's courtroom testimony is also, however, a case of reported speech nested within reported speech.
- He expresses himself in subdued gestures: his articulations in Versilov's dream are not only imagined, they are rendered in reported speech.
- The reported speech of the song, ‘She said she loves you,’ represents a transposition of what would in direct speech have been ‘She said, ‘I love him’.’
- The present tense of the actual verbs in the dialogue, like the mimetic form of direct rather than reported speech is a dramatic illusion.

Definition of reported speech in US English:

reported speech

nounrəˌpɔrdəd ˈspitʃ

A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g. he said that he would go, based on I will go).
转述引语（如I will go转为 he said that he would go），转告引述。亦称INDIRECT SPEECH . 比较DIRECT SPEECH
Also called indirect speech
Contrasted with direct speech
Example sentencesExamples
- Janie's courtroom testimony is also, however, a case of reported speech nested within reported speech.
- In addition to Rage's raising of men's pitches in the reported speech of the song's lyrics, another common theme in female gangsta rap is the sexual manipulation of men.
- Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel.
- The use of says with a first-person singular pronoun is common in representations of reported speech in numerous American dialects.
- The reported speech of the song, ‘She said she loves you,’ represents a transposition of what would in direct speech have been ‘She said, ‘I love him’.’
- His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’
- Richardson combats the mythic sweep of Dryden's heroic spectaculars with the minutia of reported speech and dress: his is the epic of the everyday.
- ‘And he turns round and says’: A baffling prefix to reported speech, common in working-class southern England since the 1960s.
- The present tense of the actual verbs in the dialogue, like the mimetic form of direct rather than reported speech is a dramatic illusion.
- He expresses himself in subdued gestures: his articulations in Versilov's dream are not only imagined, they are rendered in reported speech.
- Win employs reported speech more widely, with expressions such as ‘which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well’.
- When a reported matter is introduced by a reporting verb in the past tense, the shift from direct to reported speech is accompanied by a back-shift of the verb.
- To shift from ‘I want to know’ to ‘I wanted to know,’ is moving from speech to reported speech, and between the first moment and the second there is a temporal/spatial distance.
- In reported speech - which they do not explain how they got hold of - they claim Blair told Frei: ‘I'll see what I can do, but only under the following conditions: nothing of this conversation can be made public.’
- This is indeed found in the song ‘She said you hurt her so,’ representing the reported speech transposition of ‘She said, ‘He hurt me so’.’
- That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text.
- What follows this statement is all reported speech, if we follow the frame, which will jump us from the back porch to Janie's story.
- Recent studies have shown how reported speech can work in interaction, giving participants a way of dealing with possible tensions and signalling intended frames.
- This case is a good example of why one should be careful about making fun of public figures based on reported speech errors.
- That is indeed central to reported speech - putting something into the reporter's own words rather than just parroting them from another source.

单词	reported speech
释义	Definition of reported speech in English: reported speech nounrɪˌpɔːtɪd ˈspiːtʃrəˌpɔrdəd ˈspitʃ mass noun A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g. he said that he would go, based on I will go). 转述引语（如I will go转为 he said that he would go），转告引述。亦称INDIRECT SPEECH . 比较DIRECT SPEECH Also called indirect speech Contrasted with direct speech Example sentencesExamples When a reported matter is introduced by a reporting verb in the past tense, the shift from direct to reported speech is accompanied by a back-shift of the verb. To shift from ‘I want to know’ to ‘I wanted to know,’ is moving from speech to reported speech, and between the first moment and the second there is a temporal/spatial distance. His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’ In reported speech - which they do not explain how they got hold of - they claim Blair told Frei: ‘I'll see what I can do, but only under the following conditions: nothing of this conversation can be made public.’ Recent studies have shown how reported speech can work in interaction, giving participants a way of dealing with possible tensions and signalling intended frames. Richardson combats the mythic sweep of Dryden's heroic spectaculars with the minutia of reported speech and dress: his is the epic of the everyday. In addition to Rage's raising of men's pitches in the reported speech of the song's lyrics, another common theme in female gangsta rap is the sexual manipulation of men. The use of says with a first-person singular pronoun is common in representations of reported speech in numerous American dialects. Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel. This case is a good example of why one should be careful about making fun of public figures based on reported speech errors. That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text. This is indeed found in the song ‘She said you hurt her so,’ representing the reported speech transposition of ‘She said, ‘He hurt me so’.’ ‘And he turns round and says’: A baffling prefix to reported speech, common in working-class southern England since the 1960s. Win employs reported speech more widely, with expressions such as ‘which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well’. What follows this statement is all reported speech, if we follow the frame, which will jump us from the back porch to Janie's story. That is indeed central to reported speech - putting something into the reporter's own words rather than just parroting them from another source. Janie's courtroom testimony is also, however, a case of reported speech nested within reported speech. He expresses himself in subdued gestures: his articulations in Versilov's dream are not only imagined, they are rendered in reported speech. The reported speech of the song, ‘She said she loves you,’ represents a transposition of what would in direct speech have been ‘She said, ‘I love him’.’ The present tense of the actual verbs in the dialogue, like the mimetic form of direct rather than reported speech is a dramatic illusion. Definition of reported speech in US English: reported speech nounrəˌpɔrdəd ˈspitʃ A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g. he said that he would go, based on I will go). 转述引语（如I will go转为 he said that he would go），转告引述。亦称INDIRECT SPEECH . 比较DIRECT SPEECH Also called indirect speech Contrasted with direct speech Example sentencesExamples Janie's courtroom testimony is also, however, a case of reported speech nested within reported speech. In addition to Rage's raising of men's pitches in the reported speech of the song's lyrics, another common theme in female gangsta rap is the sexual manipulation of men. Curiously enough, the magazine chose to recount the fight in the reported speech of one of the participants in the duel. The use of says with a first-person singular pronoun is common in representations of reported speech in numerous American dialects. The reported speech of the song, ‘She said she loves you,’ represents a transposition of what would in direct speech have been ‘She said, ‘I love him’.’ His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’ Richardson combats the mythic sweep of Dryden's heroic spectaculars with the minutia of reported speech and dress: his is the epic of the everyday. ‘And he turns round and says’: A baffling prefix to reported speech, common in working-class southern England since the 1960s. The present tense of the actual verbs in the dialogue, like the mimetic form of direct rather than reported speech is a dramatic illusion. He expresses himself in subdued gestures: his articulations in Versilov's dream are not only imagined, they are rendered in reported speech. Win employs reported speech more widely, with expressions such as ‘which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well’. When a reported matter is introduced by a reporting verb in the past tense, the shift from direct to reported speech is accompanied by a back-shift of the verb. To shift from ‘I want to know’ to ‘I wanted to know,’ is moving from speech to reported speech, and between the first moment and the second there is a temporal/spatial distance. In reported speech - which they do not explain how they got hold of - they claim Blair told Frei: ‘I'll see what I can do, but only under the following conditions: nothing of this conversation can be made public.’ This is indeed found in the song ‘She said you hurt her so,’ representing the reported speech transposition of ‘She said, ‘He hurt me so’.’ That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text. What follows this statement is all reported speech, if we follow the frame, which will jump us from the back porch to Janie's story. Recent studies have shown how reported speech can work in interaction, giving participants a way of dealing with possible tensions and signalling intended frames. This case is a good example of why one should be careful about making fun of public figures based on reported speech errors. That is indeed central to reported speech - putting something into the reporter's own words rather than just parroting them from another source.
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