indirect discourse

MPAA spokeswoman, indirect discourse: "She says the numbers weren't far out of line with what the industry expected."

Cicero, De Natura Deorum, where it is reported in "indirect discourse".

In Medieval Latin, however, this was still indirect discourse and was not yet used as simply a Future Tense.

Some argue that free indirect discourse was also used by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales.

The narrative sometimes slips into free indirect discourse.

Davidson himself contributed many details to such a theory, in essays on quotation, indirect discourse, and descriptions of action.

Among other uses, information may be given in this form to indicate indirect speech, also called indirect discourse.

Outside of indirect discourse, an aorist participle may express any time (past, present, or rarely future) relative to the main verb.

Aorist in indirect discourse refers to past time relative to the main verb, since it replaces an aorist indicative.

A common technique in his work is mixing character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction,(free indirect discourse).