1. We can use other reporting verbs instead
of TELL and ASK:
apologize, declare, explain, invite,
offer, promise, suggest, warn.
Write the appropriate reporting verb according to the sentences.
1.- “I won’t tell anyone your secret”. Alice said to her best friend. ___________
2.- “I will help you with that” said Robert to Patricia. ____________
3.- “Police caught the criminal yesterday” said the policeman to the journalist. ________
4.- “Why don’t you stay for the night? Margaret said to Paul __________
5.- “I’m really sorry but I didn’t want to hurt you” Julian said to his friend ________
6.- “Would you like to join us for lunch?” My mom said to my aunt ________
7.- “Don’t do it again” Robert to his daughter ______________
offer (+to+infinitive)
invite(+sb+to+infinitive)
suggest(+noun/-ingform)
declare(+that+clause)
apologize(+for+non/-ingform)
promise (+to+infinitive)
REWRITE WHAT DANIEL SAY IN REPORTED SPEECH
“I began working here two months ago, just after my sixteenth
birthday. I enjoyed it at first because I earned quite a lot of money,
but now I realize there’s no future here. I don’t want to be doing this
job forever”
Daniel said that ......................................................................................................
He explained that …………………………………………………………………………………………….
but then he realized ………………………………………………………………………………………
and he said ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
