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indirect discourse

statement of what a person said, without quoting the exact words (Ex.: She said that she could not go.)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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