Reporting verbs

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

‘I’ll definitely take the kids to the zoo’ — He promised taking the kidstake the kidsto take 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 that meeting atmeeting atto meet at the cinema

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Why don’t we visit the museum in the center of town’ — She suggested to visit the museumthat to visit the museumvisiting 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 to watch that French moviewatching that French moviewatch 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 tired so he couldn’t take us tohe was being tired so he couldn’t take us tohe was tiring 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 to do his best tothat he would 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 exercisedoing more exercise so that he mightthat doing more exercise can make him to feel healthier

‘Let’s go somewhere else’ — We suggested that they go somewhere elsegoing somewhere elseto go somewhere else

[Boss to me]: I could pay you more money — My boss offered to pay mepaying methat I pay 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 to studythat we studythat studying more reporting verbs

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

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