Indirect (embedded) directives, usually with speech act predicates such as tell, order, give orders, etc., derive their properties from direct speech acts.
First, will he ensure that the interpreters in the secondary examination area at terminal 3 use direct speech and do not use indirect speech?
Inverted commas are positioned so that the first one is right-leaning, and the second one is left-leaning, coming after the ending punctuation mark of the direct speech sentence.
Among the constraints that figure in the development of be like, it is the pragmatic effect contrasting thought with direct speech that is most baffling.
Thus, in direct speech there is only one pragmatic source, viz. the speaker.
These factors have led me to believe that the ñt-less complex dependent sentence originally derives from direct speech.
What follows marks a change from report to the dramatic representation of direct speech.
Direct speech: what's it doing in non-narrative discourse?