ask, advise, allow, beg, command, encourage, forbid, instruct, invite, order, permit, persuade, prefer, recommend, remind, request, tell, urge, warn, want etc.

agree, claim, decide, demand, hope, offer, prefer, promise, refuse, threaten etc.

If the reporting and the reported actionA general term expressing that somebody or something does something happen at the same time, we use simple or continuousThe aspect expressing duration, formed with be + verb-ing. E.g.: What are you doing? infinitives.

This football coach is said to be strict but fair. (= They say this football coach is strict but fair.)

Everybody knows that my grandfather likes red wine.

In indirect speech, if we want to avoid the use of the general subjectThe person or thing that performs the action of a verb or that is described by a verb. E.g.: Andy has never been to Brunei. ("Andy")s everybody, they, people, one etc., we often use the passive voiceThe form of the transitive verb that shows whether the subject acts (active voice) or is acted upon (passive voice)., especially with reporting verbA part of speech that expresses an action or a state. E.g.: John seldom plays tennis.s such as believe, know, say, think, assume, claim, consider, find, presume or report.