21. What if they are given while reporting the speech of others, either in direct speech or indirect speech ? 22. The novel mixes third-person narrative with free indirect speech , which allows both identification with and distance from Stephen. 23. The same happens to any syntactic constituent that stood in the nominative case before passing into the indirect speech . 24. :: Quite so, but if it's indirect speech , as it is, the tenses still need to agree as per Dismas. 25. Indirect questions may also be subject to the changes of tense and other changes that apply generally to indirect speech . 26. An example of a normally absolute tense being used relatively, in English, is provided by indirect speech placed in the future. 27. "' NOTE "': A dependent clause in the indicative must also be put into the subjunctive when transferred to the indirect speech . 28. Since the request is performed indirectly, by means of ( directly ) performing a question, it counts as an indirect speech act. 29. :: SGCM, I'm afraid that doesn't work because it's simply giving the " it " version as indirect speech rather than direct. 30. Such a performance of an illocutionary act by means of the performance of another is referred to as an " indirect speech act ".
