Quote: the content-sentence of indirect discourse is independent of the sentence itself; the one announces the other

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The proposal is this: sentences in indirect discourse, … consist of an expression referring to a speaker, … [e.g., "that"] referring to an utterance. Period. [e.g., "The earth moves. Galileo said that."] What follows gives the … of a saying. This last point is no … content-sentence in indirect discourse is not contained in … what an utterance of "Galileo said that" does … The role of the introducing utterance is not … "He commanded that," "Now hear this." Such expressions … the speaker.   Google-1   Google-2

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