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DIRECT ADDRESS, DIRECT QUOTATION, INDIRECT ADDRESS, INDIRECT DISCOURSE, INDIRECT QUOTATION. The Columbia Guide to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Direct address is also the exact words used by a speaker or writer, and this sort of direct address is always put within quotation marks. |
 | | Indirect address and indirect discourse are paraphrases of a persons words (hence no quotation marks), as in I said that I couldnt go. |
 | | These are the conventions for handling direct and indirect quotations in writing: when you quote someone directly, you give the exact words uttered, and you enclose them in quotation marks: He said, Go home. An indirect quotation paraphrases those exact words, usually with that, and no quotation marks are needed. |
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