[U] (grammar) a speaker's actual words; the use of these in writing:
Only direct speech should go inside inverted commas.
compareINDIRECTSPEECH, REPORTEDSPEECH
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for direct speech is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is direct speech a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, direct speech is tagged as noun.
Does direct speech appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — direct speech appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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