... secondhand fact such as report, quotation, hearsay, assumption, appearance, and all other types of supportive, auxiliary information, of which quotation and hearsay are found the most common. ... source of information more clearly in (47) than in (46).39Taking Evidentials into consideration, Palmer (1986) observes that there are at least four ways of presenting a statement or a fact:• ... information which is easily heard, seen, read, and understood. Similarly, apparent, obvious, and evident share something in common in terms of meaning that indicates the state of being easily...