The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.5 - Grammar for the textbook Focus 4 (2nd edition) - Student's Book with authors Sue Kay, Vaughan Jones and Daniel Brawshaw from Pearson Education
Question
Look at the six reporting verbs in blue in Exercise 1. Five can be replaced with said and one with told. Which one and why?
Answer
- Claimed, explained, suggested, insisted, added can be replaced with said because they don’t take an object.
- Assured can be replaced with told because it takes an object.
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