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- Quotative comment "A quotative is a grammatical device to mark quoted speech in some languages, and as such it preserves the grammatical person and tense of the original utterance rather than adjusting it as would be the case with reported speech. It can be equated with \"spoken quotation marks\". In the English sentenceJohn said, \"Wow,\"there is no word indicating that we are dealing with quoted speech. This is only indicated typographically.".