Just an expression.

The girl said, "Don't be sad, brother, I'm just saying."

The girl told her brother not to be sad, just saying it casually.

Transitive sentence refers to the expression sentence that turns direct narrative into indirect narrative.

Extended data:

The method of changing direct narrative into indirect narrative

1, change the first person (I, we) into the third person (he, they, she, they) in the sentence.

(Note: If the second person calls you or you in a sentence, carefully distinguish you or who you refer to in the sentence, and then report it with a specific name; If there is no specific reference, there is no need to change it. )

2. Change the colon after the word "Shuo" in the sentence to a comma, and remove the double quotation marks in the sentence.