| 21. | What if they are given while reporting the speech of others, either in direct speech or indirect speech?
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| 22. | The novel mixes third-person narrative with free indirect speech, which allows both identification with and distance from Stephen.
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| 23. | The same happens to any syntactic constituent that stood in the nominative case before passing into the indirect speech.
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| 24. | :: Quite so, but if it's indirect speech, as it is, the tenses still need to agree as per Dismas.
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| 25. | Indirect questions may also be subject to the changes of tense and other changes that apply generally to indirect speech.
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| 26. | An example of a normally absolute tense being used relatively, in English, is provided by indirect speech placed in the future.
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| 27. | "' NOTE "': A dependent clause in the indicative must also be put into the subjunctive when transferred to the indirect speech.
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| 28. | Since the request is performed indirectly, by means of ( directly ) performing a question, it counts as an indirect speech act.
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| 29. | :: SGCM, I'm afraid that doesn't work because it's simply giving the " it " version as indirect speech rather than direct.
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| 30. | Such a performance of an illocutionary act by means of the performance of another is referred to as an " indirect speech act ".
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