What is the difference between told and tell?

What is the difference between told and tell?

To tell v. means to say something to someone, often giving them information or instructions. For example: “I often tell people how to practise their English.” Told v. is the past simple and past participle of to tell.

Did you tell or told?

Clearly the first is correct. In the first, the past tense is achieved by “did tell.” Did is the past tense of the infinitive form “to do,” it is conjugated as “do, did, done,” and here it is used to create the emphatic form of the verb “to tell”—”do tell, did tell, told.” I did what?

Is it told or have told?

1) has the correct tense agreement. Both “told” and “wandered off” are past tense verbs. In 2), “told” is past tense and “has wandered” is past perfect tense. In 3), “have told” is past perfect tense and “wandered” is past tense.

Did tell or had told?

It depends. “I have told you.” means that, sometime before the moment you are saying this, the telling has happened. “I had told you.” means that, at some moment in the past, the telling had already happened.

Where do we use tell and told?

Say and tell are irregular verbs. The past simple of say is said, the past simple of tell is told: They asked if I was looking for work and I said yes. Then he told me how he had got the job by lying about his age.

Where do we use told?

There are also other differences in using the two words. Told is generally used to provide information about something to a person or persons. Said refers to any type of conversation, and so is used more casually in conversations. Said is used to report what someone else has spoken, such as a comment, a quote, etc.

How do you use told in a sentence?

Told sentence example

  1. I told you not to give my number to anyone.
  2. Has Alex told you about the party?
  3. I’ve told myself that a hundred times.
  4. They told him about the wonderful things they had seen there.
  5. Mom told me that Dad forgave her for her affair with Señor Medena.
  6. Has anybody ever told you that you’re beautiful?

Did not tell or told?

‘Did’ is an auxilliary verb which is already in past tense, so the main verb needs to be in present tense. That is why it is not right grammar if you use a past tense verb along with ‘did’. The correct phrase is ‘did tell’ and not ‘did told’.

Have already told you meaning?

“Told you” means that it happened one or several times in the past. When you say “Have told you” it means that the telling is continuing into the present and may continue into the future. It can also mean that the person was told in the more recent past rather than a long time ago.

Is had told correct?

Only the past tense is correct: ‘I told you my name’. ‘I had told you’ is the past perfect tense and you need to have a reason to use it.

Had said or had told?

Both are correct for all persons and their use depends on the time period being discussed. “Had said” is past tense; it refers to refers to a short time period that stretches from the recent past up almost up to the. present (i.e. up to a minute or two ago).

Is Told past tense?

past tense of tell is told.

What is the difference between Told you and have told you?

“Told you” means that it happened one or several times in the past. When you say “Have told you” it means that the telling is continuing into the present and may continue into the future. It can also mean that the person was told in the more recent past rather than a long time ago.

What does I had told him already mean?

“I told him already” means that you have already told him in the recent past, and he has completed that task or anything related to that. Example : I told him not to go out, but he doesn’t listen to me. “I had told him already” means that you have told him something in the past, here the task has not been completed yet nor anything related to this.

What is the past tense of Tell is told?

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What is the meaning of Telltale?

1. a person who receives or pays out money over the counter at a bank. 2. a person who tells (stories). a story-teller. giving information (often which a person would not wish to be known). the telltale signs of guilt. I told or warned you that this would happen, had happened etc, and I was right.

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