Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Tell Me” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Verbs of Utterance quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
This quiz focuses on verbs of utterance.
There are many more ways of conveying information than just 'saying' or 'telling'. These depend on whether the telling is aloud or on paper; whether it is loud or quiet, secret or public...
See how much you can 'tell me', about these verbs of utterance.
'Hinted' (Answer 2) would be far less direct; 'pretended' (Answer 3) suggests that his claim was false in the first place.