Answer — Exercise 2
5.5 - Grammar·Focus 4 (2nd edition) - Student's Book
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.