1. It was also used as a conditional mood and in reported speech . 2. The tumor and the surgery destroyed the left conjunctions, or reported speech . 3. Has there been a relaxation of reported speech / indirect speech rule? 4. :I think you misunderstand the conventions of reported speech in English. 5. In normal conversation using reported speech , the marker is used less, to avoid redundancy. 6. Because, after all this is reported speech , not verbatim quotation. 7. The first form is used mainly in reported speech and in subordinate clauses that follow'say'or'think '. 8. Many of these types of stories are passed down through generations, furthering this aspect of reported speech . 9. David Corfield, a philosopher of mathematics writing in " The Guardian ", questions the veracity of the book's reported speech . 10. While Morice continued to support successive administrations, he made no reported speeches in Parliament, and seems to have attended sporadically.