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   TID: hpt/w32-mvc 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 05.06.2019 23:21   
      
    AH> On one occasion while I  was  visiting  my  mother  in  hospital  I   
    AH> noticed that her room mate seemed to be grumbling  to  herself.  My   
    AH> mother confided that..  having been scheduled for surgery the  same   
    AH> day...  this woman got up early,  spent at least an  hour  applying   
    AH> makeup & painting her nails & whatnot,  and was informed as soon as   
    AH> their nurse entered the room that she would have to revert  to  the   
    AH> factory settings.  When she complained  to  my  mother,  my  mother   
    AH> answered "How would the doctor know if you were turning  blue  with   
    AH> that stuff on?" :-))   
      
   Ahem ;), besides the absence of the comma before the quotation marks, I wanna   
   remark again that inside of those marks there is the direct speech. So,   
   theoretically, it should be either   
      
   My  mother answered, "How will the doctor know if you are turning blue with   
   that stuff on?"   
      
   or (as the indirect speech)   
      
   My mother answered her that the doctor would not know if she was turning blue   
   with that stuff on.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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