Thursday, 11 September 2014

Quoted Offers: Grammatical Realisation

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 115):
Quoted offers naturally retain the property of being variously realised in the mood system:
declarative: She said: “I can do the laundry.”
interrogative: She said: “Shall I do the laundry?”
imperative: She said: “Let me do the laundry!”