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quotative
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Quotative
A
quotative
is a
grammatical
device to mark
quoted speech
in some
languages
, and as such it preserves the
grammatical person
and
tense
of the original utterance rather than adjusting it as would be the case with
reported speech
. It can be equated with "spoken
quotation marks
". In the
English
sentence
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