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SAY / TELL / TALK / SPEAK
Uses Examples
Say
-Used with direct and indirect
speech
-Say is most used without apersonal object
If we want to put a personal
object after say, we use to.
-She said that it was my last
chance.
-He said Good morning-And I say to all the people of
this great country
Tell
-Used with direct and indirect
speech after tell, we usually say
who is told, i.e., tell someone
something.
- only used to mean instructor inform
- tell is used to tell someone to
do something
- tell is not used before objects
like a word, a name, a
sentence, a phrase.
- she told me that she wouldbe late.
- She told me that was mylast chance.
- I don't want to tell youagain to get your homework
done.
Talk
- There is not very much
difference between speak and
talk.- talk is the more usual word to
refer to conversational
exchanges and informal
situations
- When she walked into the room
everybody stopped talking.
Speak
Is often used for one-way
communication and for
exchanges in more serious or
formal situations.
- Speak is the usual word to
refer knowledge and use oflanguages.
- I'll have to speak to that boy-
he's getting really lazy.
- After she had finished reading
the letter, nobody spoke.
- She speaks three languages
fluently.
Worksheet
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Level: ______________ Class: __________________
Date: _______________________________________
Result: _______________
Teacher: _____________
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Complete the sentences with: To tell, to speak, to speak, to talk in the
correct form:
a) I don't want to ___________ about this.
b)________ her that Im coming tomorrow.
c) What did you __________ to her?
d) I __________ my mom that I planned to come home for Christmas.
e) We have to ___________ that we plan to launch the new product thisweek.
f) We have to ____________ them that we plan to lunch the new productthis week.
g) What did your boss _________ to you about.
h) We __________ about a lot of different topics.
i) He __________ that he was satisfied with my work.
j) Why didn't you ___________ me?
KEY:
a) talk b) tell c) say d) told e) say f) tell g) talk h) spoke i) said j) tell
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