Reporting Verbs exercises — Set 5: Advanced Reporting Verbs: Subjunctive Patterns, Academic Verbs & Complex Structures (Worksheet)
Worksheet • 20 questions • 15 min
The chairperson insisted that every board member present for the emergency vote on the proposed merger.
The consultant suggested that the company its marketing strategy before launching the new product line.
The committee recommended that the director a formal apology to the families affected by the data breach.
The trade union demanded that management the workers' overtime pay with immediate effect.
In her keynote address, the minister proposed that a new regulatory framework to address emerging cyber threats.
The health authorities residents to evacuate immediately as the floodwaters continued to rise.
The auditor accused the finance director deliberately falsifying the quarterly earnings reports.
The inquiry blamed senior executives failing to implement adequate safety protocols at the manufacturing plant.
The school's head teacher discouraged parents putting excessive academic pressure on their children at such a young age.
The cybersecurity expert warned employees clicking on links in unsolicited emails, as they might contain malware.
In a peer-reviewed study, the researchers that their findings provide conclusive evidence for the link between air pollution and respiratory disease.
Several leading economists that the proposed tax reform will disproportionately affect low-income households.
The defence minister that the military operation had not achieved all of its initial objectives, but maintained that significant progress had been made.
The former executive is to have embezzled more than three million pounds from the company's pension fund.
After reviewing the evidence, the pharmaceutical company that its clinical trial data contained significant statistical errors.
When questioned by the police, the suspect having been anywhere near the crime scene on the night in question.
The project manager the anxious stakeholders that the delays were temporary and that the revised timeline remained achievable.
The lead researcher suggested that the team a different analytical method to verify the preliminary results.
The judge the jury to disregard the witness's final remark, as it had been ruled inadmissible.
The pharmaceutical company the findings of the independent study, arguing that the methodology employed was fundamentally flawed.
Reporting Verbs exercises online (Worksheet)
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).