I was Told to Tell You vs I was Tell to Tell You

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I was tell to tell you

❌ Not Correct

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I was told to tell you

✅ Correct

Some examples from the web:
  • Let me tell tell you something.
  • At least now that it didn't work, I get a chance to tell tell the both of you how sorry I am.
  • Tell me what to tell you.
  • I'm just reminding myself to tell Ron to tell you how good I am at bowling.
  • Those were design issues that are designed to tell us, tell audience, tell you things about who he is on a feeling level, not anything that's didactic or spoken to you.
  • I call you in the middle of the night
  • to tell you tell that I love you.
  • I promise to tell you everything he tells me.
  • I was told to tell you that your friends in Cameroon appreciate any hospitality that you could show us.
  • I was told to tell you they need you back upstairs.
  • I was told to tell you you're a fascist pig.
  • I was told to tell you that the Langford mission is a DPD assignment.
  • I was told to tell you they need you back upstairs.
  • I was told to tell you that "the prophet has spoken"
  • I was told to tell both of you... that you must get back to the Jedi Temple immediately.
  • And I was told to call you, tell you the game's over, and arrange a meeting.

INTERPRETATION:

I was told means someone told you. For example he told me a story.
I was tell does not mean anything it’s not correct.
And I was telling means you were talking or doing the “telling” for example I was telling him about the car.

tell present, base form
told past

  • I always tell you the truth.
  • I told you the truth yesterday.
  • Question and negative sentences use the proper form of do and then tell.
  • I didn't tell you the truth yesterday. Did you tell me the truth yesterday? Do you always tell the truth?


When you have an auxiliary verb with a verb, then the aux. verb will take on the tense/plural and singular aspect of the verb.

so when you have do+tell do will take on the past tense and tell will remain in its base form.

example: He does understand the question.

He understands the question.

He did tell me about the story.

He told me about the story.


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