indirect quotation

"You told the story with indirect quotations throughout, sir, and thus we never got the exact words anyone used."

Indirect quotations usually has a mark or quote mark for short.

In the hands of anyone less skilled, this verbal volleyball of direct and indirect quotations would likely be a disaster.

Indirect quotation is not necessary.

"Yet sometimes in indirect quotation, a person is reported as saying something he could not possibly have said in direct quotation."

At several points, different publications, using indirect quotations or undisclosed sources, would report on cast names and roles as being effectively confirmed.

Thank you, Mr Fatuzzo, for your indirect quotation of the great Kant.

The plausibility of this tactic going through is fairly evident in the case of verbal forms that introduce direct or indirect quotations.

Quoted material is verbatim from the Times, but reported by the Times as indirect quotations from Eliot.

(Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as Pseudo-Eupolemus.)

In reported speech, the indicative in a direct quotation is replaced by the optative in an indirect quotation when the verb of saying is in a past tense ("said").

The use of that word, in the absence of either direct or indirect quotations from aides, raises a host of issues: Were those aides really so unsophisticated as to reveal such a politically loaded emotion in front of a reporter?

Christians also suggest that by using an indirect quotation and the plural term prophets, "Matthew was only saying that by living in Nazareth, Jesus was fulfilling the many Old Testament prophecies that He would be despised and rejected."

Douglass Cater, a Lyndon Johnson aide who later taught journalism, noted three other categories of F.D.R. answers: direct quotation; indirect quotation ("the president said that he"); and background, in which the information could be used but without identifying the president as the source.

The dialogue in this play is loaded with direct and indirect quotations from the plays of Shakespeare, but several character names are also taken from the plays, such as Osric from Hamlet, Viola from Twelfth Night and Ferdinand from The Tempest.

On "En la Tierra Que No Olvida," a tango by Mr. Metheny, Mr. Mehldau begins his solo with an indirect quotation of Mr. Metheny's classic "Bright Size Life"; both artists said they had missed the accidental allusion.