2 Using verbs of reference
Referring verbs are used to summarise another writer’s ideas:
Previn arguedthat interest rates were too low.Bakewell (1992) found that most managers tended to use traditional terms...They may also be used to introduce a quotation:
As Scott observed: ‘Comment is free but facts are sacred.’Most of these verbs are followed by a noun clause beginning with ‘that’.
(a) The following mean that the writer is presenting a case:
- argue
- claim
- consider
- hypothesise
- suggest
- believe
- think
- state.
Melville (2007) suggested that tax rates should be harmonised.
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