Reporting Verbs Quiz 30 (25 MCQs)

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1. 'You should check out the new restaurant, you will love it!' Matt said.
2. 'Oh, by the way, we saw Justyna at the party.' $\rightarrow$ They mentioned ..... Justyna at the party.
3. I was just congratulating Ceri on ..... her race.
4. The fossil is believed ..... back to the Miocene era.
5. He ..... for breaking my heart.
6. Complete the sentences with the correct form ofthe phrasal verbs. I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall! Why can't I ..... him!
7. Identify the reporting verb in the following sentence:She mentioned, 'I will be there on time.'
8. In the sentence, "My dad reminded me to do my chores, " which word is the reporting verb?
9. 'You must come and visit us sometime', she told me.She invited ..... sometime.
10. Identify the reporting verb in the following sentence:The manager stated, 'The meeting has been rescheduled.'
11. To say that you are sorry for doing something wrong or causing a problem
12. Robin bought the cinema tickets. I tried to pay for mine, but he .....
13. Convert the direct speech 'We are going to the beach' to reported speech.
14. We ..... to two people that they were in our seats.
15. That criminal ..... to be dangerous.
16. Penelope ..... Tom to fix the garden gate.
17. Identify the reporting verb in the following sentence:The teacher explained, 'The sun rises in the east.'
18. She has always stridently ..... the accusations against her.
19. She enjoyed looking at them but she gasped when she first saw the Sisley, a stretch of the Seine with every paint of pastel shading being made to count. "That's my favourite, " said a voice from behind her. Cathy turned to see a tall, dark-haired young man give her a grin that must have made many people return his smile. "Quite beautiful, " she (a) .
20. "Yes, I'm afraid I used your phone withou asking."
21. Mark suggested ..... tonight.
22. Baum et al. (2015) ..... that the math behind tumor growth looked more like chaos theory than anything else, adding that more empirical evidence is needed to confirm this observation.
23. "Go for it; apply to Harvard University, " the teacher told me.The teacher ..... me to apply to Harvard University.
24. He confessed .....
25. 'I broke the window.'