Timeline for sentence fragment to be improved
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 11:05 | comment | added | SamBC | I would certainly reject it, but I can see what it means so I would offer the correction of adjusting the person of the reported speech or making it clearly direct speech. Direct speech should be marked. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 9:57 | comment | added | virolino | For me, it was not clear at all. I had to read it several times to understand it. So, is it grammatical to not use the quotation marks in this case? | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 9:54 | comment | added | David Siegel | @virolino The original sentence was not wrong, it jsut implied the quotation instead of making it explicit. The explicit form is clearer, but in context the implicit form is reasonably clear. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 9:50 | comment | added | virolino | that is exactly what i implied, that mixing direct speech with indirect speech is "funny". I was just not sure how it is supposed to work. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 9:18 | history | answered | David Siegel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |