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Fold scarf 101 Posted 4 years ago
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1. I told about the experience I had in Italy.


2. He told about what happened yesterday.


Are these two correct?

  

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I'm not sure of my answer. The first example sounds correct, but the second one is not. In fact, in both examples, I tend to add an object (You, me, her, him, them, us, noun) Ex: He told you about what happened yesterday.

— Moonrise

  • I'm not sure of my answer.
  • The first example sounds correct, but the second one is not.
  • In fact, in both examples, I tend to add an object (You, me, her, him, them, us, noun) Ex: He told you about what happened yesterday.
  • He told me about what happened yesterday.
  • He told her about what happened yesterday.
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I'm not sure of my answer.

The first example sounds correct, but the second one is not. In fact, in both examples, I tend to add an object (You, me, her, him, them, us, noun)

Ex:


  • He told you about what happened yesterday.
  • He told me about what happened yesterday.
  • He told her about w
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fold scarf 101Are these two correct?

No. Neither is correct, because "tell" is a transitive verb. It needs an object.

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The Oxford English Dictionary has for definition 2.b. under "tell"

"intransitive. To give an account, report, or description of. Also with about."

The 18 citations go back as far as Old English. Most of them use "of", for example, from 2011, "Harrison tells of traveling in Siberia." But there is also, for example, from 1955, "One elderly informant told a

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