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Help the gym manager complete his incident report about a personal trainer's interaction with a very unmotivated client.
Select ALL the reporting verbs that correctly fit the sentence structure.
The exhausted trainer ______ the client to actually lift the weights, not just stare at them.
The correct answers are told, encouraged, and advised.
These verbs follow the grammatical pattern Reporting Verb + Object + to-infinitive (e.g., told the client to lift).
Suggested and said cannot be used with this pattern. We cannot say "suggested someone to do something" or "said someone to do something." Instead, we would use a that-clause (e.g., suggested that the client lift the weights).