To identify performative verbs, use the hereby test. "I promise to go to school tomorrow" "I hereby promise to go to school tomorrow" Promise is a perfomative verb.

No. Performative verbs: when you say a word, you do the action the word describes "promise/guarantee/apologize" 'https://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/list-of-performative-verbs/ a reporting verb is a verb (such as say, tell, believe, reply, respond, or ask) used to indicate that discourse is being quoted or paraphrased