"indirect quotation" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to reporting someone's words without using their exact phrasing. It is also known as "reported speech." Example: She told me that she was too busy to attend the party. (indirect quotation) In this sentence, "She told me" is the reporting verb and "that she was too busy to attend the party" is the indirect quotation. This means that the speaker did not use the exact words the person said, but instead reported the general meaning of their statement.
It is a vital skill, as is using indirect quotation.
But this is not a contrary-to-fact condition, just an indirect quotation after the past-tense verb "asked," so the subjunctive is not called for.
Just short of two weeks after that repeated indirect quotation, President Obama publicly embraced and extended the metaphor attributed to him: "We've had a good exchange between ourselves and the Russians.
He wrote: "Outside of direct or indirect quotation the term 'defense' should be used sparingly and with the greatest caution.Who, after all, could be against 'defense'?But at least some of us are against excessive militarism".
And it may be that expressives in general that is terms which conventionally express an attitude function to express the speaker's attitudes even in belief reports and in indirect quotation.
Here is an example of an indirect quotation that does not require a comma: While I was at his house, John asked me if I wanted anything to eat.
Another issue in LSOE performance was the treatment of quotation and indirect discourse.
Or quotations can be indirect (for example: "Ms. Nguyen said that the fishermen were cousins and appeared to be in their mid-30's but that she had no exact age").
1. We use double quotes for quotations, direct or indirect, and example sentences and expressions, whereas we use single quotes for terms and names.
But in the official news agency's largely indirect account it is put in quotation marks, as though directly from the letter, and the Foreign Ministry spokesman repeatedly used this term when describing the American letter at a news conference tonight.
"Manifest intertextuality" applies when specific other texts are drawn upon in a text, typically via explicit quotation in the form of direct or indirect speech.
