Reporting Verbs
Check out this page after you've gone through the Reported Speech page. Here are more ways that you can retell what someone else (or yourself) said earlier.
There are more reporting verbs than ‘said’. However, nearly all of them have different structures. Most are followed by Full Infinitives (to verb) or by Active Participle Clauses (verbing), which makes them Verb Patterns. Others are followed by Content Clauses (a type of embedded clause) with the word ‘that’ acting as the crux which binds the two clauses together. The method taught in the Reported Speech page falls into this last category.
verbs followed by FULL INFINITIVES
agree
claim
demand
offer
promise
refuse
say
threaten
verbs followed by FULL INFINITIVES
advise ___
allow ___
ask ___
beg ___
convince ___
dare ___
encourage ___
forbid ___
invite ___
order ___
permit ___
persuade ___
remind ___
tell ___
warn ___
verbs followed by PARTICIPLES
accuse ___ of
apologize for
admit (to)
complain about
deny
discuss
encourage
forbid
insist on
mention
permit
recommend
report
suggest
verbs followed by 'THAT', then a clause
agree
claim
demand
offer
promise
refuse
say
threaten
In the blanks (___) are where an indirect object should go, probably the person originally addressed. For the Participles column, adding an indirect object later is generally optional.
The advantage that these reporting verbs have over ‘said’ is that they give us more information about how the original speaker expressed their thoughts and what their intention likely was.