1) First we have to lift the level of instruction. 2) Virtually all instruction is in small groups or one-on-one. 3) Two lawyers were told not to leave the building but no reason for this instruction was given. 4) You’ll get nowhere if you follow his instruction.

Some common synonyms of instruct are discipline, educate, school, teach, and train. While all these words mean “to cause to acquire knowledge or skill,” instruct suggests methodical or formal teaching.

give me

transitive verb. 1a : to relate in detail : narrate told the whole story to us. b : to give utterance to : say could never tell a lie. 2a : to make known : divulge, reveal don’t tell your password. b : to express in words she never told her love— William Shakespeare.

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?

Just like “say” and “tell”, “speak” is an irregular verb. So in the past tense the form is “spoke”. But “talk” is a regular verb, so all you need to do to change the verb to the past tense is add -ed-. The pronunciation of that -ed- is the just a /t/ sound added to the end of the verb: talk/t/.

The past simple of say is said, the past simple of tell is told:

1. They asked if I was looking for work and I said yes.
2. Then he told me how he had got the job by lying about his age.
3. ‘Hello,’ she said.
4. She told him they were going on holiday. (The focus is on the information.)
5. He said, ‘I’m not paying £50 for that. ‘

Originally Answered: What is the difference between said and told ? Said is the past participle of say and told, that of tell. Both are informal usages,however, told is more emphatic and means to inform something to someone. We use it mostly in indirect or reported speech.

The difference between say and tell

1. Say something vs tell someone something. Generally speaking, you can use say and tell as follows: You say something BUT you tell someone something.
2. Say something to someone. Tell is used with an indirect object (e.g. tell me something, tell John something…)

Say and tell are used in both direct and indirect speech. Direct speech: I said “I’m hungry.” / I told him “I’m hungry.” Indirect speech: I said that I was hungry / I told him that I was hungry.

Usually indirect speech is introduced by the verb said, as in I said, Bill said, or they said. Using the verb say in this tense, indicates that something was said in the past. In these cases, the main verb in the reported sentence is put in the past.

Free indirect speech can be described as a “technique of presenting a character’s voice partly mediated by the voice of the author” (or, reversing the emphasis, “that the character speaks through the voice of the narrator”) with the voices effectively merged.

Free indirect style combines the advantages of first and third person, while also eliminating the disadvantages. The reader is close to the characters, but the author can switch viewpoints with a scene or chapter break. Narration in free indirect style uses the viewpoint character’s voice, not the author’s.

Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like ‘say’, ‘tell’, ‘ask’, and we may use the word ‘that’ to introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.