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SAY OR TELL?




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SAY OR TELL?

SAY (SAID, SAYING), being intransitive, is able to stand alone without a personal object. Example: Megan said that she loved you.

SAY can be used with direct speech. Example: Megan said: "I love Peter"
 
SAY can be at the end of a sentence without leaving a question hanging.
 
TELL (TOLD, TELLING), being transitive, needs a personal object (the person that we are speaking to). Megan told me that she loved you.
 
 
Read the following text and choose the correct words to complete it.
 
 

TEACHER´S PET

The other day an issue arose in the classroom. Roberto  that Omar was the teacher´s pet. The teacher  us that he didn´t have any preferences. Omar was  Roberto that he was jealous because he had better grades in English when Gabriel  him that sometimes Roberto had better grades than him. Then Hugo : "I think both Omar and Roberto are the teacher´s pets." Luis was  Omar that he wasn´t the best student and Omar : "My grades prove that I´m the best." When Gabriel  the teacher that he allowed Omar to  bad things about others, the teacher : "Don´t  things you can´t prove."  The girls  them to stop arguing, they  that the teacher didn´t have any pets, and then the boys started  that the teacher´s pets were THE GIRLS!! And that´s what the boys .