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Can someone please explain a little further "he said / she said / name said " when relaying a conversation to someone.
My Try:
Place WHO SAYS in the beginning and SAYS in the end, SAYS WHAT in the middle.
Pay attention to two words in the reported speech: the subject and the predicate of the embedded [] sentence:
Ahmedinejad, [Batı´nın İran´ın gücünden korktuğunu] söyledi. ‘Ahmedinejad said the West is afraid of Iran’s power.’
The case of the embedded subject is genitive:
Batı|’nin = stem + genitive ending
Personal participles are used in reported speech. Their marking is –ecek- (future) and –dik- (other tenses). Look what other stuff is added to the participle:
kork|tuğ|u|n|u = stem + participle marking + possessive suffix sg 3rd + pronominal –n- + accusative ending
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