SAY & TELL - Reported Speech

hey guys I'm Alex thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on assay and tell in reported speech now today we are going to quickly address a very very common mistake that many new English speakers make with reported speech so on the board I have said can you guys see me still if I go here it's not okay yeah a little bit more okay so I have four examples I have he said me that it was cold he told me that it was cold the guy in the radio told that or the guy on the radio said that and you can put whatever he said or told in that situation two of these sentences are correct two of these sentences are incorrect can you tell me which ones hmm if we look at the first one he said me that it was cold if you think this is correct unfortunately you are making a grammar mistake that is very common don't feel bad because you are here to correct it right now now this reported speech mistake he said me she said me my mom said me my dad said me stop right now okay your mom your dad your friend they didn't say you they didn't say you okay what they did is that they told you something so never ever ever ever ever say he she said me if you want to say set and reported speech you have to use they said to me okay so you can say he said to me that it was cold that's okay he told me that it was cold this is definitely correct okay so if you want to use say use he said she said whatever they said to me he told me that it was cold okay next example we have the guy in the radio told that the guy in the radio said that hmm which ones you think is correct first one if you think it's the first one say it's the first one Alex okay if you think it's the second one say it's the second one Alex okay look at those of you who said it's the first one Alex the guy on the radio told that don't get a cookie unfortunately this is in correct the guy on the radio said that this is correct why all right the fundamental difference the basic difference between told and say said or say and tell normally you're reporting in the past right so he said to me he told me is this if you say this is information from any source okay for anyone so somebody on the radio somebody on the TV if you watch a movie and a character opens their mouth and words come from their mouth they say something they don't tell you something they just say it because they are speaking to other characters in the movie if a character looks at the screen and looks at you and tells you about the story then they tell you something but if they just open their mouth and you hear it they just say it okay so to say something is to receive information from any source just to hear spoken language okay so someone says something if someone tells you something this information is directed towards you it's information that is directly for you so again if your mom or dad says okay if they say mark mark is a popular name mark go to the grocery store and buy some bananas and then you talk to me later and you can say my mom told me to go to the grocery store and buy some bananas because your mom gave you the information directly okay so if you are reporting use told if someone tells you something directly if someone speaks to you directly it's much more common to say he told me she told me now again the TV the radio they don't tell you things unless you're listening to a news report and I guess you could say the guy told now you can't you really can't right he said this is information that he produced but it wasn't you know it's directly to the people listening but it's just something that comes from their mouth so the main point of this is guys please please please stop saying he said me she said me he told me okay she told me or he said to me she said to me to test your understanding of this grammar point and to make sure you never make this mistake again check out the quiz on n vidcom good luck guys you

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Length: 5min 47sec (347 seconds)

Published: Tue May 22 2012