| But in Standard Spoken English, we use the indirect quotative almost exclusively. |
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| As noted, the ideophone can occur with quotative go, with either a preposed or a postposed subject nominal. |
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| I'm skeptical of Ward's theory, because in other journalistic publications, it's easy to find examples of quotative inversion. |
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| However, among the first 30 returns, I found 4 quotative tags. |
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| Note the intrusion into British demotic of the valley-girl quotative be, like. |
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