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. |