1.引言间接引语是英语语言中很常见的一种语法现象,语法学家已对此作了很多的研究。可是,众多的论述大多是围绕间接引语本身,直接引语与间接引语的区别,以及怎样把直接引语变为间接引语等问题,而很少涉及引导间接引语的引述分句(reportingclause)。请看:la.He said/that Mary would 1. Introduction Indirect quotation is a common grammatical phenomenon in the English language, grammarists have done a lot of research. However, most of the discussions focus on the indirect speech itself, the difference between direct speech and indirect speech, and how to change the direct speech into indirect speech. However, it is seldom involved in the quotation clause reportingclause). See: la.He said / that Mary would