Communication Single Verb: Main verb specifies communication, such as say, tell, ask, promise, talk.

There is no phase assignment for single-verb communication utterances included in Lahey's 1988 chart, so such utterances are designated only as "single verb" rather than assigned to a specific phase.

Utterance

Context/Explanation

I said that. 

 

She won't tell us the answer.  
I asked her.