Reporting Verbs

The easiest word people learn as reporting words are "say" and "tell" because they hear them since they are babies and it so much easier to remember them than the one they see in school and high school.

Example:
Thom told me I needed to pay more attention to him.
My mother says she will meet mu father later.
These are correct verbs however, there are a lot more that are able to describe so much better what someone says. They have a variety o structures and there are categories for them based on the sentence structure, some verbs are in more then one.

Verb - Object - Infinitive

Advised
Encourage: "Mom encouraged me to finish my studies".
Invite: "Julia invited him to her 16 party".
Remind
Warn

Verb - Infinitive

Agree
Decide
Offer: "She offered me a great opportunity".
Promise
Refuse: "My kid refused to eat his vegetables".
Threaten

Verb (THAT)

Admit: "Ana admitted (that) she took the pie"
Agree: "We agreed (that) we would split the bill"
Decide
Deny
Explain
Insist
Promise
Recommend
Suggest

Verb - Gerund

Deny: "He denied having news from the letter".
Recommend
Suggest: "She suggested everything was fine at home".

Verb - Object- Preposition - Gerund

Accuse: "Allan accused the boys of cheating on the exam".
Blame: "Ana blamed her husband for missing the flight",
Congratulate
Verb - Preposition - Gerund

Apologize: "He apologized for being late",
Insist: "She insisted on doing the washing up".


Fronting

Fronting means is being represented when a sentence is moved  to the beginning of the same sentence. This happens perhaps one part of this sentence is the object of it or it has another compliment, an adverbial even the main verb itself.

It is used a lot by writers when they want to emphasize or make a dramatic effect, it is very common. And it is important to recognize it when you see it but, there is no need to use them to demonstrate a "good English".

Some rules for fronting:


The subject and verb need to change their position when:
The main verb is "be".
"There is a small store room next to the kitchen" / "Next to the kitchen is a small store room"
The main verb is a verb of place (sit, live, lie, etc...) or movement (go, run, fly, etc...).
Example: "The robbers ran out of the bank" / "Out of the bank ran the robbers".
The subject and verb do not need to change position when:
The verb is transitive (it takes object).
The subject is a noun (he, she, it, etc...).
There are verbs different of place and movement.
There are continuous tenses.