The key answer of exercise 6

1

• He warned that whatever hadn't happened would happen and no one would be safe from it. (He actually said 'Whatever hasn't happened will happen and no one will be safe from it')
• Hilary Craft said we had already found the answer: solar power. She said we could expect enormous mirrors in the sky ... ('We have already found the answer: solar power. We can expect enormous mirrors in the sky.")
• Clara Petrovic, said she was working on a prototype... ('1 am working on a prototype.')
• Alexis Smithson said that in the past thieves had always taken objects. ('In the past, thieves always took objects.')
• The verb tenses shift back one tense when we report speech.

2

• Glen Hiemstra of Futurist.com recently claimed that somewhere on planet Earth there is a young child who will be the first person to live forever.
• ('Somewhere on planet Earth there is a young child who will be the first person to live forever.")
• The example doesn't shift the tenses back and it uses a reporting verb.

4

1. admit - confess
2. remember- recollect
3. tell- inform
4. answer - respond (We answer a question, but we can respond to other things, e.g. a piece of music.)
5. suggest - imply (suggest has different meanings: it can mean make a suggestion, which is different from imply.)
6. threaten - warn (threaten suggests a punishment, warn might be to help someone.)
7. insist - maintain
8. assume - presume

Expressions ah are more formal than expressions 1-8.