Note that we can use many other more informative reporting verbs, in addition to said, to report statements and in quoting direct speech: The shoe shop manager explained / insisted that I couldn ...

If someone says something that you want to tell another person, you can report it using direct speech or reported speech. In direct speech we use speech (or quotation) marks to show the exact ...

many also use these hotlines as a kind of "predictive policing," tracking reported speech incidents and using them "as data points that are used to predict hate crimes." It's not clear how much ...