Reporting Verbs exercises — Set 5: Advanced Reporting Verbs: Subjunctive Patterns, Academic Verbs & Complex Structures (Typing Practice)

Typing Practice • 20 questions • 15 min

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The chairperson insisted that every board member present for the emergency vote on the proposed merger.

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Reporting Verbs exercises online (Typing Practice)

Go beyond say, tell, speak, and talk with these advanced reporting verbs exercises for reported speech at C1 level. Practise the subjunctive after insist, suggest, recommend, and demand (insist that he be present), advanced verb + object + to-infinitive structures (urge, beg, implore, instruct), verb + object + preposition + -ing patterns (accuse of, blame for, congratulate on), and formal academic reporting verbs used in essays and research (assert, contend, maintain, concede, allege).