When using quotation marks for partial or indirect quotations, words-as-words, short-form works, or expressions, American and British punctuation styles differ.
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Often, Sears says, the indirect quotation emerges as " He was asked if he were happy with his run production ."
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Both versions above are indirect quotations because they do not use inverted commas and do not claim to quote the exact words the President used.
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In indirect quotation, there is more licence to adjust the tense of the original verb to suit the sentence in which the indirect quote appears.
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But as long as you're not " passing the ideas off as your own ", and distinguish between direct and indirect quotation, no major harm is being done .-IMSoP 00 : 33, 22 Nov 2004 ( UTC)
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Quotation using a country's home currency as the unit currency ( for example, USD 1.11 = EUR 1.00 in the Eurozone ) is known as indirect quotation or quantity quotation and is used in British newspapers; it is also common in Australia, New Zealand and the Eurozone.
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A line from the song that states, " there's a man who spoke wonders / I've never met him / he said,'he who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in'", which is an indirect quotation of " Matthew 7 : 8 " from The Bible.
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