responded In this exchange the rst quoted sentence is an
imperative that ends with an exclamation point; the next is a direct question that ends with a
question markinside the quotes and the last quoted statement is a
simple demonstrative sentence,
which ends with a
comma inside the quotes when a statement follows about who is making the quoted statement. If a demonstrative sentence is quoted
and ends a quoted passage, it ends with a
period inside the quotation
marks The employee said, I agree Indirect quotations restate or report statements rather than reproducing them directly He said that he was happy Indirect quotations are not set o in quotation marks (except here as an example, do not include punctuation to indicate the
nature of the quoted sentence, and usually include words like said that stated that or something similar to mark the reporting of speech indirectly.
Like indirect questions, indirect quotations expose the writer to some suspicion from readers. What exactly did someone say as opposed to what is reported A few indirect quotations
will not arouse such suspicion, but repeated indirect quotations from the same source can create doubts about accuracy of reporting.
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