Reported speech

Definition

indirect / Çndǝ'rekt, -daÇ'r- / adj ၁။ သြယ္ဝိုက္ေသာ။ an indirect cause / impact / result ❍ find something out by indirect methods ❍ There would be some benefit, however indirect, to the state. ၂။ သြယ္ဝိုက္ေသာ။ an indirect appeal for support ❍ Their handling of the situation came under indirect attack in the press. ၃။ သြယ္ဝိုက္ေသာ။ ေကြ႕ေကာက္ေသာ။ an indirect route. ❑ indirectly adv သြယ္ဝိုက္၍။ This legislation will affect us all, directly or indirectly. ❍ be indirectly responsible for sth. ❑ indirect object n ( grammar ) သမၸဒါနပုဒ္။ လက္ခံျပပုဒ္။ him in Give him (ie to him) the money. Compare OBJECT 1 ၄ ❑ indirect question (also reported question ) n ( grammar ) တစ္ဆင့္ေျပာေမးခြန္း။ In an indirect question, the question ‘Where are you going?’ becomes ‘She asked me where I was going. ’ ❑ indirect speech (also reported speech ) n [U] ( grammar ) တစ္ဆင့္ေျပာစကား။ In indirect speech, ‘I'll come later’ becomes ‘He said he'd come later. ’ ❑ indirect tax n ပစၥည္းအလိုက္ ေပးရေသာ အခြန္။ သြယ္ဝိုက္ခြန္။

Examples

1. An indirect approach to the problem
2. Her promotion may have an indirect effect on the morale of other employees.
3. There will be substantial indirect benefits to the population.
4. The observation of black holes in space must rely on indirect methods.
5. We took an indirect but scenic route through the mountains.
6. He made only indirect references to his opponent.
7. Indirect assurances of continued support