Grammar: 🚀 Advanced Grammar: 💬➡️🗣️ Reported Speech (B2) - Lesson 4: Advanced Reporting Verbs (suggest, warn, offer, promise, deny, accuse + various structures)

Vocabulary: Reporting & Describing B2 Lesson 4: Advanced Reporting Verbs What you will learn: By the end of this lesson, you will be able to use a variety of advanced reporting verbs with their correct grammatical patterns to add nuance and precision to your speech and writing. Why Use Advanced Reporting Verbs? Using 'said' is correct, but using a more precise verb shows the speaker's true intention. It makes your writing more descriptive and fluent. 😐 Simple & Correct Direct: "Let's go to a cafe." → He said we should go to a cafe. 😎 Advanced & Nuanced Direct: "Let's go to a cafe." → He suggested going to a cafe. Four Common Patterns for Reporting Verbs The main challenge is learning the grammatical structure that follows each verb. Pattern 1: Verb + to-infinitive Used for offers, promises, refusals, and agreements. offer: He offered to help me. promise: She promised to call me. refuse: He refused to help . Pattern 2: Verb + gerund (-ing) Used fo…