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Quotative

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to mark quoted speech. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
  2. 2
    A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.

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