"Coming back to life" by Pink Floyd explained.

Last week in my English Class, I had an activity that consist to explain a song with Reported Speech and Reporting Verbs.

I want to share it

In the song, the singer asked us where we had been when he had burned and broken, next he warned us to don't heard wrong words for other one, then he encouraged us to forget the past and change our lifes, after he suggested that the future could be better and finally he admitted he had had a hard past, but now he found the way.

REPORTING VERBS

Reported Speech is the most important topic to talk about something or somebody, but how you could reported something if you don’t know reporting verbs?

Well, this blog will help you with this issue, right down you have a list of reporting verbs and when you can use it.

Verbs followed by "if" or "whether".

Ask.

Know.

Remember.

Say.

See.

Verbs followed by a "that".

Add.	Admit.	Agree.	Announce.	Answer.	Argue.
Boast.	Claim.	Comment.	Complain.	Confirm.	Consider.
Deny.	Doubt.	Estimate.	Explain.	Fear.	Feel.
Insist.	Mention.	Observe.	Persuade.	Propose.	Remark.
Remember.	Repeat.	Reply.	Report.	Reveal.	Say.
State.	Suggest.	Suppose.	Tell.	Think.	Understand.
Warn.

Verbs followed by either "that" or an infinitive with "to".

Decide.	Expect.	Guarantee.	Hope.
Promise.	Swear.	Threaten.

Verbs followed by a "that" clause containing should, which may be omitted, leaving a subject + zero-infinitive.

Advice.	Beg.	Demand.
Insist.	Prefer.	Propose.
Recommend.	Request.	Suggest.

Verbs followed by a clause starting with a question word.

Decide.	Describe.	Discover.	Discuss.	Explain.	Forget.	Guess.
Imagine.	Know.	Learn.	Realize.	Remember.	Reveal.	Say.
See.	Suggest.	Teach.	Tell.	Think.	Understand.	Wonder.

Verbs followed by object + infinitive with "to".

Advice.	Ask.	Command.	Forbid.	Instruct.
Invite.	Teach.	Tell.	Warn.	Beg.

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