Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - In the headlines for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from the conversations. Put them into three groups (1-3) of reporting verbs that follow the same pattern.

Answer

  1. announced / claim + clause 
  2. promised / offered / refused + to + infinitive
  3. accused / admitted / apologised + preposition + -ing