A question about "Reporting questions"; Indirect speech;

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Hello everyone I have a question regarding a section in my grammar book (Collins COBUILD English Grammar).

So, in a paragraph about indirect speech there's a section concerning reporting questions. Authors provide a list

of reporting verbs that can be used to report questions and then they say that imagine, say, see, suggest and think are usually used in a negative or interrogative clause, or a clause with a modal.

Do I understand it right that it is something like this "He didn't even say how we can solve this problem" for negative clause and "Did you think of what you are going to say on the graduation evening?" for interrogative clause.

P.S. I understand the rules about statement like order in reported questions.

Here's a screenshot of this section in my grammar book.

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DVBCDo I understand it right that it is something like this "He didn't even say how we can solve this problem" for negative clause and "Did you think of what you are going to say on the graduation evening?" for interrogative clause.

For the negative example, yes, I think so. For the interrogative example, I'm not sure they are talking abut constructions involving "think of ~". A more likely example would be "Do you see what I mean?" A modal example would be "I can't imagine why he said it".

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