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1 How to quote what someone says or said

2 says that Person は sentence in plain form + と言っています

3 example: ジョンさんはきそくはふくざつだと言っています。
John says that the rules are complicated.

4 said that Personは sentence in the plain form + と言っていました Or 言いました

5 example: さちこさんはみんなおかしを食べていると言いました。
 さちこさんはみんなおかしを食べていると言いました。  Sachiko said that everyone was (is) eating sweets.

6 take note: In direct speech, the speaker’s utterance is placed in quotation marks. The tense of 言う and what is quoted does not have to be the same tense.

7 よしこさんは「あしたもいっしょにえいがをみに行く?」と言いました。
Yoshiko said, “Shall we go to the movies together tomorrow as well?”


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