10.5. Grammar. Reported Speech.

What are the verbs that were used to introduce the reported speech? What’s the difference between them? How are imperatives reported? Positive and negative. These include: told: insist; order; demand; forbid, (all for giving orders or commands) suggest; recommend; advise; warn (all for suggestions, advice). Any of these can be used to report infinitives. The most common positive structure is subject pronoun + reported speech verb + (that) + object pronoun  + infinitive .

e.g. ‘Stop talking!’ They told us to stop talking.

‘Leave the library now! They demanded that we leave the library.