Reporting verbs

[Man to woman]: ‘Shall I get you some medicine?’ — He offered to get herget her hergetting her some medicine

‘I’ll definitely take the kids to the zoo’ — He promised to take the kidstaking the kidstake the kids to the zoo

‘I’m not cleaning the toilet again’ — He refused that cleaningcleaningto clean the toilet again

‘Why don’t we meet at the cinema?’ — He suggested meeting atthat meeting atto meet at the cinema

‘Let’s not meet at the cinema’ — She suggested not going togoing tothat to go to the cinema

[Book]: You really must try the salmon salad — The book recommended tryingto trythat trying the salmon salad

[Teacher to Students]: ‘Listen students, I am right about this’ — The teacher explained that he was rightthat was rightthat he was being right

[Mum to me]: ‘I’ll definitely come and get you at 8 o’clock’ — My Mum promised coming to get methat she would come and get meshe would to come and get me at 8 o’clock

[Dad]: ‘Why don’t we go to my house next time?’ — My Dad suggested that we go to histhat go to histo going to his house next time

[Waiter]: ‘Can I take your coat?’ — The waiter offered to take myto take histaking my coat

[Teacher]: ‘By the way class, I’m not going to do your homework for you.’ — The teacher didn’t offer that do homework for herdoing the homework for herto do the homework for her class

‘I really will do the washing tomorrow’ — She promised organizing the washing the next dayto organize the washing the next daythat I would organize the washing the next day

[Company]: We will not be giving you anymore money — The Company refused giving us any moreto give us any morethat giving us any more money

‘Why don’t we visit the museum in the center of town’ — She suggested that to visit the museumvisiting the museumto visit the museum in the center of town

‘We shouldn’t stay at the hotel as it had bad reviews’ — He suggested staying at the hotelnot staying at the hotelnot to stay at the hotel as it had bad reviews

[My friend to me]: You have to watch that French movie, it was funny!’ — My friend recommended watch that French moviewatching that French movieto watch that French movie because it was funny

[Grandfather to us]: ‘I can’t take you to the park because I’m tired’ — My Grandfather explained that he was being tired so he couldn’t take us tohe was tiring so he couldn’t take us tohe was tired so he couldn’t take us to the park

[President]: ‘I swear I will do my best to protect the country!’ — The president promised that he would do his best tothat he would to do his best todoing his best to protect the country

[Doctor to man]: ‘You might want to do more exercise to feel healthier’ — The doctor suggested that he might want to do more exercisethat doing more exercise can make himdoing more exercise so that he might to feel healthier

‘Let’s go somewhere else’ — We suggested going somewhere elseto go somewhere elsethat they go somewhere else

[Boss to me]: I could pay you more money — My boss offered to pay methat I paypaying me more money

‘I won’t do that again, I promise!’ — I promised to do thatnot to do thatnot doing that again

[Teacher]: ‘Why don’t we study more reporting verbs?’ — The teacher suggested that we studyto studythat studying more reporting verbs

‘We can’t promise that we will leave all the food in the fridge’ — They didn’t promise not to leave more foodleaving all the foodto leave all the food in the fridge

‘I’m not studying anymore reporting verbs!’ — I refused not to study anymoreto study anymoreto study no more reporting verbs