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in'direct dis'course




discourse consisting not of an exact quotation of a speaker's words but of a version transformed from them for grammatical inclusion in a larger sentence. He said he was hungry is an example of indirect discourse. Cf. direct discourse.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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