The examples are from the book "A Grammar of Present-day English" by I. Krylova and E. Gordon.
"I repeat, the girl has been extremely impertinent," he said.
You leave me no choice.
I swear it to you!
I refuse to listen to you. You talk such nonsense.
"Where shall we have our meal?" "Anywhere you like". "I choose the kitchen then."
"You've always treated me badly and now you insult me," Maurice shouted in his turn.
My dear, how you throw about your money!
She said: "How swiftly the years fly!".
"May I help you to wash the baby?" "It is very kind of you. Ah, how he kicks! Hs he splashed you?"
Why do you talk like that to me?
In this textbook it is just said that the speaker just names the occurrence itself, the action as such. And a comment: the Present Indefinite is also used for an instantaneous action which takes place at the moment of speaking but it is not viewed in its progress.
Screenshot from the the book by Krylova and Gordon:
Screenshot from the book Advanced Grammar in Use by Martin Hewings:
Could you tell me whether these are all performative verbs (in bold)? And are these two excerpts from the two textbooks describe the same phenomenon?
