SuStel:

The real question is whether you can say 'e' yIja' tell that.
It seems that the answer is no. Whatever you want to report about is either a noun or a quotation.

I'm afraid I can't understand this; doesn't the {'e'} of a sao serve as a noun?

'e' is a pronoun. It stands in for a sentence, not a noun. When I said "either a noun or a quotation," I meant exactly that.

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