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Definition of Direct discourse
1. Noun. A report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g.,. "He said `I am a fool'"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direct Discourse
Literary usage of Direct discourse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"A Deliberative Subjunctive (§ 444) in the direct discourse is always retained in
... This rule applies not only to the Imperative of the direct discourse, ..."
2. Exercises in Latin Prose Composition: With References to the Grammars of by Elisha Jones, Joseph Horace Drake (1905)
"TABLE showing the Changes made in Moods and Tenses when direct discourse becomes
... When an Indicative or a Subjunctive of direct discourse passes into a ..."
3. Exercises in Latin Prose Composition: With References to the Grammars of by Elisha Jones, Joseph Horace Drake (1898)
"direct discourse. INdirect discourse. Indicative becomes Infinitive. ... When an
Indicative or a Subjunctive of direct discourse passes into a Subjunctive ..."
4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"A Deliberative Subjunctive (§ 444) in the direct discourse is always retained in
... This rule applies not only to the Imperative of the direct discourse, ..."
5. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"This present tense arose from the analogy of the present tense so commonly used
in direct discourse, which in older German frequently alternated with the ..."
6. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1880)
"In distinction from the Indirect Discourse— Oratio Obliqua, the original words
of the author are said to be in the direct discourse— Oratio Secta. ..."
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