indirect speech 
noun
Another term for reported speech.Today, they slyly tried to report indirect speech as direct speech....
- It is not used in indirect speech, because a reported question is part of a statement: I asked you whether you wanted more to eat.
- Their problem is to understand when people talk in indirect speech and use irony, idioms and metaphors because they take each sentence literally.
- stock car
- stock company
- stock control
- stock cube
- stock dove
- stocker
- stock exchange
- stockfeed
- stockfish
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- stockholder
- stockholding
- Stockholm
- Stockholm syndrome
- Stockholm tar
- stock horse
- stockily
- stock index futures
- stockiness
- stockinet
- stockinette
- stocking
- stocking cap
- stockinged
- stocking filler