The following list is some of the best examples of alternatives to “said” that our class found. When using this page, look carefully at the grammar of the words that follow each introductory verb. For example, “argued against” is usually followed by gerunds or noun phrases. It is never followed by infinitives. Other expressions work differently.
added "We're limping," said Rick Haisley, whose Fort Pierce funeral home lost the roof of its chapel to Jeanne. The storm also damaged the roof of Haisley's riverfront house, so he and his wife have moved into the funeral home. But he added: "It's amazing how understanding the families are. They just want to hold your hand and cry with you."
address Three Republican candidates addressed a group of 500 senior citizens concerning tax cuts.
announce The Spanish government announced that it would invest over $14,000 million in the Latin American region.
announced At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 200
announced- -EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI's headquarters in London where he announced that EMI Music is launching DRM-free superior quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire and that Apple's iTunes Store will be the first online music store to sell EMI's new downloads.
announced Finally, watching the tedious results show paid off! Ryan Seacrest announced last night that the ...four mentors for the Top 10 will be Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil "Sweet Caroline" Diamond.
announced: The WSA has announced the finalists for its 13th annual Industry Achievement Awards, with the winners to be announced Feb. 7 at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle.
Answered: Miss Alabama answered, "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
argued against (+gerund) Pope John Paul II argued against studying the origin of the universe.
Argued against (+ noun phrase): He argued against the idea that all distinctsenses should be represented in the lexicon. Instead, he proposed that pragmatic principles could be used to derive word senses from others.
argued for (+gerund) New to Pentagon, Gates argued for closing Guantánamo.
argued for--Carrie Burnham argued for the Right to Vote in April 4, 1873. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania disagreed with Carrie Burnham, and she was denied the right to vote.
argued with The union leaders, Valmore Locarno, Victor Orcasita and Gustavo Soler had argued with Drummond about wage and safety issues.
articulate The ...team has to articulate better the consequences of its decisions.
asked During President Bush's January 26 White House press conference, Jeff Gannon, Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for the self-described conservative news outlet Talon News, asked the president the following question: “How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”
asked: Zig noticed his wife would cut a small amount off the ends of the Sunday roast before putting it in a pan and roasting it, so he asked, “Why do you cut the ends off the roast?”
asked--The Port of Seattle Commission asked port staff on Tuesday to develop a plan to reduce the 7 million tons of carbon dioxide that Sea-Tac Airport produces annually, following a similar plan in effect at the seaport to encourage tenants to voluntarily reduce their air pollution.
asserted "There is no relationship between the Beijing Games and unrest in Tibet. The Olympics are the Olympics."State-sponsored Chinese media have asserted that Tibet's most famous Lama secretly orchestrated the violence in Lhasa last week.
asserted-- During an interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Charlie Rose falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain "early on call[ed] for the firing of Secretary Rumsfeld." In fact, while McCain expressed "no confidence" in Rumsfeld in 2004, he did not call for him to be fired; he said the decision about whether Rumsfeld should leave was the president's.
asserted His campaign asserts that McCain's decades of foreign policy experience make him the candidate best equipped to lead the country in a time of international peril, and he has staked his bid in particular on his deep knowledge of the military and political situation in Iraq, frequently mocking his Democratic rivals for what he describes as a naive desire to pull troops out quickly.
be worded The Defence Secretary made a public statement about the crisis, but it was worded in such a way as to give very little information.
believed The general public is overestimating the mortality rate of SARS among patients of age less than 60; only 14% correctly believed that it is below 10% (the actual figure for this age group is around 5% in Hong Kong).
believed: Schumpeter believed that capitalism would be destroyed by its successes.
Believed: Many famous people are believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression), based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them.
commented : "Today's agreement marks a welcome demonstration that Europe means business, and lends credibility to Europe's efforts to become the most competitive economy in the world by 2010", commented Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein after the Council.
commented "A big project," Bush commented."It's going to be very exciting," the president said. "I'm very impressed."
commented Andy Beal commented on Bonforte’s remarks, and pointed out something he found interesting about Bonforte and the Yahoo Messenger client he oversees: “Is this the same messenger product that tries to hijack your browser settings and change your default search engine to Yahoo? Well, I guess removing clear indications that Yahoo’s about to hijack your settings, is one way to “increase the time that users spend using them.”
continued In a letter to the Captaris board, Vector partner Amish Mehta wrote that Captaris has taken too long to evaluate the offer. "Given your history of delays and broken promises, we are understandably wary of the depth of the Company's commitment to its sale," he wrote. The letter continued:"We have watched with dismay not only the reduction in the stock price of the Company but also the deterioration in the Company's intrinsic value. Poor decisions regarding the sale of the Company have been compounded by poor decisions about acquisitions, use of cash, product priorities and sales strategy. Even a few more months on the current path risks additional permanent damage to Captaris' prospects and market value. It is imperative that the Company be sold now and further erosion to shareholder value be prevented."
declare After nearly forty years' membership, the Communist party declared him a traitor.
declared-- Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."
declared The Thai military declared martial law nationwide early this morning after launching a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
declared With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States and war is what they got.
declared: The United Nations has issued Security Council Resolutions that declared some wars to be legal actions under international law, most notably Resolution 678, authorizing war with Iraq in 199
Declared: Formerly part of Sweden and from 1809 an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire, Finland declared its independence in 1917.
doubted Exxon says it never doubted the climate change threat.
doubted The FBI decided last week that it should not release another batch of 14 names and faces provided by Hamdani because they doubted their authenticity.
emphasized Fukuda, sometimes described as a foreign policy "dove," has long emphasized the importance of building strong ties with China and the rest of Asia and represents a break from the nationalist Abe.
emphasized: "We're just at the beginning of this," emphasized Capt. Mike Rand, chief of the U.S. Coast Guard's marine safety investigation unit charged with this case. "This is still an open investigation."
emphasized--Expressing concern over human rights violations committed during the armed clashes, Mr. de Mistura emphasized to all those involved their obligations to minimize harm to civilians, urging all parties to promote the rule of law in the country.
explained In proposing the law, Rep. Roger Griswold of Connecticut explained that the object was, as recorded in the Annals of Congress, "to punish a crime which goes to the destruction of the executive power of the government.
explained: "Love" marriages were in fashion for a while in the '80s, Santhosh explained, but a high divorce rate convinced many young people to return to the old way of allowing their parents to hire matchmakers.
Had no doubt: Perth-based barrister Tom Percy, QC, said he had no doubt the 27-year-old was innocent, and blamed the media circus for putting pressure on the case.
Had no doubt: "I had no doubt about final result after successful first period. My players acted as a team and created a lot of chances.
inform Doctors should inform patients about the possible side effects of any drugs they prescribe.
observed "Your links don't work," he observed. "You need to test them before posting."
observed I observed recently that Hansen’s GISS series contains an apparent error in which Hansen switched the source of GISS raw from USHCN adjusted to USHCN raw for all values January 2000 and later.
observed: Researchers off Mexico's Pacific Coast have observed what might be a case of global warming's effects in the far north: gray whales returning to calving grounds malnourished.
pondered Schwarcz is also a columnist for the Montreal Gazette and this week he pondered the chemical feed and coloring routinely added to make the gray-fleshed, captive fish look more like their brightly hued, robust, wild kin from the Pacific.
Pondered: Li rightly then pondered: “Is that a real past tense, or could that dialogue still be taking place?
pondered--Damien Wilkins is one of the longest tenured Sonics, and his future with the team is uncertain. He pondered the possibility that the team has quit. "It's hard to say," the four-year swingman said.
remarked "It's an odd calling to make decent people laugh," Molière once remarked.
remarked Two months before his death, in a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, King remarked on how he would like to be remembered.
Remarked: His support for this, and his warm relations with the Irish leaders Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, angered some of his former Unionist associates, notably Sir Edward Carson. During the negotiations he remarked to Michael Collins that he might be "signing his political death warrant", to which Michael Collins dryly and with some accuracy replied that he was "signing his actual death warrant".
replied : When asked by a reporter something like :"What, in your opinion is the most important question facing humanity today?" Einstein thought for a bit then replied, "I think the most important question facing humanity is, 'Is the universe a friendly place?'
replied One participant opined that the existing trails could not cope with the growing number of hikers, and the department should establish more new trails. The authority replied that it is now managing over 500 km of trails in the country parks, and are still exploring suitable trails that could be introduced to the public.
replied When Port of Seattle police confronted Chiu and asked him if he had made the bomb threats, Chiu replied: "Regrettably, yes, I did," according to court documents.
replied: Asked if Batista's closing assignment Wednesday was a one-time thing, McLaren replied, "At this moment, yes."
report Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
reported Remember about two weeks ago when The Wall Street Journal reported that Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz was brought on to advise Microsoft in its bid for Yahoo?
reported: Nine cases of salmonella linked to tainted cantaloupe have been reported in Washington state, including two in King County.
responded I wrote to fair officials and voiced my complaints and concerns. They responded to my letter within two days and immediately began a process to change the problems.
responded Obama responded to her criticism by rehashing that vote.
responded On his radio show, Glenn Beck responded to a clip of the film An Inconvenient Truth in which Al Gore says that global warming could
Responded: Matt then quickly responded that wordpress.com.cn was an imitation in no way associated with wordpress.com. The site then faded away silently.
Responded: Following the September 11th 2001 attacks on US cities, new risks were shown to the world; risks for which rescue services would need to be better prepared and the government responded with the announcement that Urban Search & Rescue teams were to be established around the country - one of the first services to do so was Essex.
state Justice Cohen stated clearly that no further action would be taken.
Stated : American Apparel spokeswoman Alexandra Spunt stated “Woody Allen is our spiritual leader and that’s the only statement the company will make on that issue.
stated On the March 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage stated that he "agree[d] 100 percent" with a caller who said...
stated "We strongly believe our directors, along with our management, are the right team to help WaMu work through the current market challenges and restore value to our shareholders," the company stated.
stated Despite the general warnings, the message further stated, “The FBI has no information indicating a credible threat of terrorist attack in the United States.”
suggested City Councilman Richard Conlin suggested the district sell the city three former school properties that are now leased to community organizations.
suggested NBC's Tim Russert suggested that Democrats have seized on the Dubai Ports World takeover of a British company -- in which Dubai Ports, a company owned by the government of Dubai, a member state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), would assume control of six major U.S. seaports -- in order to build their national security credentials.
suggested: A few years ago when BEA was at another crossroads (like, most of the technical management tier walked out), I suggested that Microsoft should buy them.
suggested: City Councilman Richard Conlin suggested the district sell the city three former school properties that are now leased to community organizations.
vocalize Getz vocalized what everyone else at the meeting was thinking.
wanted to know--"I had the feeling he really wanted to do it," said Dr. Roger Peele, then head of psychiatry at St. Elizabeths. But Reagan wanted to know what Hinckley's caregivers thought.
What I want to know is whether it goes better with white or red, but I don't see THAT in the article.
wondered Fox's Asman wondered whether nationwide protest of proposed immigration legislation is a perfect chance to "round up these lawbreakers and ship them out"
Wondered: Frustrated by this, Kubatana Blogs wondered: The media in Zimbabwe is owned and operated by the Mugabe regime.