Question

Report the following using an appropriate introductory verb from the list below: complain, advise, refuse, warn, beg, suggest, agree, exclaim, deny, offer, insist, apologise, threaten, accuse, prefer 1. \"You should take more exercise,\" the doctor said. – The doctor advised me to take more exercise. 2. \"This film is so boring,\" he said to his mother. 3. \"Please, please let me go out to play, Mum,\" she said. 4. \"Shall I carry your shopping for you?\" he said to her. 5. \"Don\'t get dirty in the garden,\" she said to Jane. 6. \"I\'m not going to tidy Helen\'s bedroom,\" Tim said. 7. \"I didn\'t eat the cake,\" he said to her. 8. \"What a silly thing to say!\" she said. 9. \"You really must get your hair cut,\" she said to him. 10. \"You broke my record player,\" she said to him. 11. \"I\'m sorry I didn\'t write to you,\" she said to him. 12. \"Let\'s go to Jamaica for our holiday,\" he said to her. 13. \"Yes, that is a nice colour,\" the sales assistant said to her. 14. \"I\'d rather watch a film than the news,\" she said to her. 15. \"I think you should go on a diet,\" she said to him. 16. \"I\'ll kill you if you try to escape,\" the kidnapper said to her.

Answer 1

1. "You should take more exercise," the doctor said.
– The doctor advised me to take more exercise. 
2. "This film is so boring," he said to his mother. 
 - He complained his mother that the film was so boring.
3. "Please, please let me go out to play, Mum," she said. 
- She begged her mom to let her go out to play.
4. "Shall I carry your shopping for you?" he said to her. 
- He offered her to carry her shopping.
5. "Don't get dirty in the garden," she said to Jane. 
- She warned Jane not to get dirty in the garden.
6. "I'm not going to tidy Helen's bedroom," Tim said. 
- Tom refused to go and tidy Helen's bedroom.
7. "I didn't eat the cake," he said to her.
 - He explained her that he hadn't eaten the cake.
8. "What a silly thing to say!" she said. 
- She exclaimed what it was a silly thing to say.
9. "You really must get your hair cut," she said to him.
- She insisted that he had to get his hair cut.
10. "You broke my record player," she said to him. 
- She accused him of breaking her record player.
11. "I'm sorry I didn't write to you," she said to him.
- She apologized to him for absence of her letters.
12. "Let's go to Jamaica for our holiday," he said to her. 
- He suggested her to go to Jamaica for their holiday.
13. "Yes, that is a nice colour," the sales assistant said to her.
- The sales assistant agreed with her that it was a nice color.
14. "I'd rather watch a film than the news," she said to her. 
 -  She said to her that she prefered to watch a film than news. 
15. "I think you should go on a diet," she said to him. 
- She advised him to go on a diet.
16. "I'll kill you if you try to escape," the kidnapper said to her.
- The kidnapper threatened her that he would kill her if she tried to escape.

Answer 2

1. The doctor advised me to take more exercise.
2. He complained to his mother that the film was so boring.
3. She begged her mum to let her go out to play.
4. He offered to carry her shopping for her.
5. She warned Jane not to get dirty in the garden.
6. Tim refused to tidy Helen's bedroom.
7. He denied eating the cake to her.
8. She exclaimed that it was a silly thing to say.
9. She suggested that he really must get his hair cut.
10. She accused him of breaking her record player.
11. She apologized to him for not writing to him.
12. He suggested going to Jamaica for their holiday.
13. The sales assistant agreed that it was a nice colour.
14. She preferred to watch a film than the news.
15. She insisted that he should go on a diet.
16. The kidnapper threatened to kill her if she tried to escape.