Templates and Verbs for Introducing
Summaries and Quotations
Verbs for making a claim:
Argue, assert, believe, claim, emphasize, insist, observe, remind us, report, suggest
Verbs for expressing agreement:
Acknowledge, admire, agree, endorse, extol, praise, celebrate the fact that, corroborate, do not
deny, reaffirm, support, verify
Verbs for questioning or disagreeing:
Complain, complicate, contend, contradict, deny, deplore the tendency to, qualify, question,
refute, reject, renounce, repudiate
Verbs for making recommendations:
Advocate, call for, demand, encourage, exhort, implore, plead, recommend, urge, warn
Templates for Introducing Quotations:
X states, “________.”
As the prominent scientist X puts it, “________.”
According to X, “________.”
X herself writes, “________.”
In her book, Ciao, Michelangelo, X maintains that “________.”
Writing in the journal Arts Now, X complains that “________.”
In X’s view, “________.”
X agrees/disagrees when she writes, “________.”
X complicates matters further when she writes, “________.”
Templates for Explaining Quotations:
Basically, X is warning that ….
In other words, X believes that ….
In making this comment, X urges us to ….
X is corroborating the age-old adage that ….
X’s point is that ….
The essence of X’s argument is that ….