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    Reporting Verbs

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    Reporting verbs are used to report what someone else has said or written. There are neutral reporting verbs that simply state what was said, such as "say", "describe", and "report". Positive reporting verbs show how the speaker felt about the information, like "argues", "supports", and "persuades". Common reporting verbs include "report", "say", "describe", "show" in the present tense and "reported", "said", "described", "showed" in the past tense. These verbs are necessary for re-telling lectures.

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    Reporting verbs are used to report what someone else has said or written. There are neutral reporting verbs that simply state what was said, such as "say", "describe", and "report". Positive reporting verbs show how the speaker felt about the information, like "argues", "supports", and "persuades". Common reporting verbs include "report", "say", "describe", "show" in the present tense and "reported", "said", "described", "showed" in the past tense. These verbs are necessary for re-telling lectures.

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    Reporting verbs are used to report what someone else has said or written. There are neutral reporting verbs that simply state what was said, such as "say", "describe", and "report". Positive reporting verbs show how the speaker felt about the information, like "argues", "supports", and "persuades". Common reporting verbs include "report", "say", "describe", "show" in the present tense and "reported", "said", "described", "showed" in the past tense. These verbs are necessary for re-telling lectures.

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    Reporting Verbs

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    Ahmed Hamed
    Reporting verbs are used to report what someone else has said or written. There are neutral reporting verbs that simply state what was said, such as "say", "describe", and "report". Positive reporting verbs show how the speaker felt about the information, like "argues", "supports", and "persuades". Common reporting verbs include "report", "say", "describe", "show" in the present tense and "reported", "said", "described", "showed" in the past tense. These verbs are necessary for re-telling lectures.

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    Reporting verbs

    Reporting verbs are verbs which allow you to repeat what someone else has said or written. These are
    necessary for the Re-tell Lecture item types. There are different types of reporting verbs depending on
    how you feel about what the person said or wrote. For most of the Re-tell lecture item types, you are
    repeating what the person said and should use neutral reporting verbs which simply state or repeat what
    you heard.
    Neutral reporting verbs

    Type of reporting verb Example verbs Example sentences

    The speaker described the policies


    introduced by the government.

    The speaker outlined the steps taken by the


    university to increase student numbers.
    These verbs repeat without say, describe, report,
    commenting on the speaker’s express, outline, She described the changes in the eco
    position. present, discuss system.

    He reported that there has been a


    significant increase in the number of people
    travelling abroad.

    Positive reporting verbs

    Type of reporting verb Example verbs Example sentences

    The speaker argued that the most effective


    treatment for diabetes is a low GI diet.

    These verbs show how to analyses, proves, The speaker identifies 3 reasons why
    speaker felt about the identifies, supports, museums are important for society.
    information they were persuades
    providing. The speakers supported the idea that there
    should be compulsory voting.

    She analysed the different arguments for


    the new policy.
    Common reporting verbs

    Present tense Past tense

    report report

    say said

    describe described

    show showed

    present presented

    state stated

    claim claimed

    explain explained

    express expressed

    discuss discussed

    identify identifies

    outline outlined

    talk about talked about

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