Reporting Verbs

Lee et al. (2013) _________ the importance of empathy in forming effective workplace relationships.

• defined

• compared

• contributed

• stressed

Inhofe (2018) firmly ________ that climate change is not as significant as most experts assume.

• discovers

• recommends

• believes

• suggests

The organization has accused many major companies __________ doing too little to tackle discrimination in the workplace.

• that

• of

• with

• as

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.

• determined

• asserted

• criticized

• posited

The English clergyman and physicist John Michell ____________ the concept of black holes in 1783, an idea too astonishing to be accepted by the scientists back then.

• proposed

• noticed

• contrasted

• viewed

Stadler (2017) _______ the three most important steps that governments can take to tackle climate change.

• outlined

• convinced

• insisted

• commented

Spalding (2019) concurs _________ Rogers (2018) on the need for greater use of data in school management.

• of

• as

• that

• with

Please select all the correct sentences below:

• According to Green (2020), government inaction is to blame for the current Covid crisis.  

• Government inaction is to blame for the current Covid crisis (Green, 2020).

• According to Green (2020) states that government inaction is to blame for the current Covid crisis.

• Green (2020) states that government inaction is to blame for the current Covid crisis.