Cover of the textbook Focus 4 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.5 - Grammar for the textbook Focus 4 - Student's Book with authors Kay Sue, Jones Vaughan, Brayshaw Daniel and Beata Trapnell from Pearson Education

Question

Read the GRAMMAR FOCUS. Then find five more reporting verbs in Exercise 1. Which verb patterns do they illustrate?

Answer

  1. verb + -ing form: deny
  2. verb + object + to-infinitive: beg, encourage; verb + object + preposition + -ing form: accuse somebody of