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Say and tell are irregular verbs. The past simple of say is said, the past simple of tell is told:
Both say and tell take a direct object. The object is most commonly the reported clause (the report of what someone said).
2 Tell + indirect object + to-infinitive
We use tell with an indirect object and a to-infinitive to report a command or an instruction. We don’t normally use say in this way:
