He suggested stopping and having a picnic. Different reporting verbs have different patterns, for example: When we want to report what people say, we use reporting verbs. When Mary complained that she was tired out after walking so far, Peter said they could stop for a picnic. I'll tell you what, let's see if we can find a place to sit down, and then we can stop and have our picnic. We've been walking for hours! I'm exhausted. When we want to report what people say, we don't usually try to report their exact words. Level: intermediate Reporting and summarising
