Sysmlforum

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions › he-was-telling-me-that-he-is-…
The edited question is harder to answer He told me or He was telling me would refer to a specific conversation He is telling me or He tells me could be historic present for the same thing or He tells

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions
Both can take infinitive complements He told me to stay silent He said to stay silent With an infinitive complement both say and tell are interpreted as giving orders or direction rather

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions
2 I told him while suggests that you warned him as he was hiking I have told him suggests a different timing that your warning is relevant to the current topic but didn t necessarily happen at the same

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions › he-told-me-that-he-has-had-g…
Telling a friend about another friend Yesterday I met John He told me that he has had got temporary residence in England Which one is appropriate here has or had

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions
The sentence He came and said to me something I ll never forget seems to me a bit of a style problem I d change said to me to told me or just to said without the to me unless context demanded said to me

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions › where-does-the-expression-…
The idea of a bird carrying messages was picked up in later years so that today when a person wants to keep a secret or to claim intuition as a source of information he says a little bird

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions › is-my-wife-and-i-correct-english
Thus it should be Please join my wife and me But it is correct to say My wife and I are going to the theatre tonight Using I when it is the object in this way such as He told my wife and I that he was

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions
The second sentence he told me that he would have come is less common and can mean a few different rather complicated things One would express the perfect completion of an

https://english.stackexchange.com › questions
6 Note that I was told and I have been told have slightly different meanings I was told implies that you were instructed specifically about the current situation whereas I have been told suggests that