7.9 verbs of thinking and knowing
Many reporting verbs are used to refer to people's thoughts, rather than to what they say. Reporting verbs can be used to refer to many different kinds of thought, including beliefs, wishes, hopes, intentions, and decisions. They can also be used to refer to acts of remembering and forgetting.
- We both knew that the town was cut off.
- 'I'll go to him in a minute,' she thought.
- I had always believed that one day I would see him again.
Here is a list of reporting verbs which can be used to report people's thoughts:
- accept, agree, assume, believe, consider, decide, determine, doubt, dream, estimate, expect, fear, feel, figure, foresee, forget, guess, hold, hope, imagine, intend, judge, know, long, mean, muse, note, plan, ponder, pray, prefer, propose, reason, recall, reckon, reflect, regret, remember, resolve, suppose, think, understand, vow, want, wish, wonder, worry