What are some reporting verbs used to express a sense of yearning for a past experience? How do reporting verbs contribute to the reader's perception of the speaker's reliability?

Reporting verbs are used in academic writing to describe or report on others' works. A word that is used to discuss other people's work or is a reporting verb. May 1, 2024 ... To report questions you can use a handful of verbs, the most common of which are ask, inquire, want to know and wonder. Knowing which patterns are associated with different verbs (and not just reporting verbs) is one of the biggest single grammar challenges facing learners. Abstract. The paper contributes to the research on academic attribution by exploring syntactic-semantic patterns of English reporting verbs used by three types ... Apr 25, 2025 ... Reporting verbs can express agreement, disagreement, recommendations, or even neutrality. Below are common reporting verbs categorized by what they express. Jun 3, 2024 ... Reporting verbs are used in academic writing to discuss or report on others' ideas, research, and creative work that you use as evidence to back. Jan 31, 2025 ... The current research is aimed at investigating the surface forms, reporting verb tenses, and writer stances from the uses of reporting verbs. In this paper, we illustrate what the lexical semantics of reporting verbs must incor- porate in order to contribute to the reconstruction of story and context. Mar 8, 2020 ... Reported speech: · He/she/name said/told me that he/she could sing opera · He/she/name said/told me that he/she would help me do my homework. Verb Tense in Reported Speech. When you report what someone said in the past, you usually shift back a verb tense from the tense the speaker used. These are ...