reported speech
111Laal language — For the Pakistani musical band, see Laal (band). Laal yəw láàl Spoken in Chad Region Gori, Damtar, Mailao villages in Moyen Chari prefecture Native speakers …
112Object–verb–subject — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig …
113indirect discourse — noun uncount LINGUISTICS the words you use to report what someone else has said, for example She said that we must leave. : REPORTED SPEECH …
114colon — [[t]ko͟ʊlən[/t]] colons 1) N COUNT A colon is the punctuation mark : which you can use in several ways. For example, you can put it before a list of things or before reported speech. 2) N COUNT Your colon is the part of your intestine above your… …
115arrange — to do something underhand or taboo Used to describe preparing accounts or reports in a misleading manner; bribing or coercing officials; obtaining an unfair preference; or castrating domestic cats: You always ought to have torn cats… …
116indirect question — noun Grammar a question in reported speech (e.g. they asked who I was) …
117might — might1 modal verb (3rd singular present might) past of may1. 1》 used in reported speech to express possibility or permission. ↘expressing a possibility based on an unfulfilled condition. ↘expressing annoyance: you might have told me! 2》… …
118must — must1 modal verb (past had to or in reported speech must) 1》 be obliged to; should. ↘expressing insistence. 2》 expressing an opinion about something that is very likely. noun informal something that should not be overlooked or missed. Origin… …
119should — modal verb (3rd singular should) 1》 used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness. ↘used to give or ask advice or suggestions. 2》 used to indicate what is probable. 3》 formal expressing the conditional mood. ↘(in the first person)… …
120quotation mark — noun (countable usually plural) one of a pair of marks (“ ”) or ( ) that show the beginning and end of reported speech or of a quoted word or phrase; inverted comma BrE …
