21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
Quotation. Like questions, quotations come in two basic kinds—direct and indirect statements attributed to someone “‘That’s right I said Indeed, I said that it was exemplary The rst example is a direct quotation, and the second is indirect. Note the differences in their punctuation and order of words and selection.
Direct quotations are surrounded by quotation marks and contain within the quotation marks ending punctuation to indicate whether the quoted statement is a
demonstrative, interrogative, imperative, or other kind of sentence Make it so the boss ordered Why must I the employee inquired Because I said so the boss

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 mark
inside 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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