tell有告诉;吩咐;讲述;表达;辨别等意思，那么你知道tell的过去式是什么吗?下面跟着小编一起来学习一下，希望对大家的学习有所帮助!

tell的各种时态：

过去式: told

过去分词: told

现在分词: telling

tell的用法：

tell的用法1：tell的基本意思是用语言或文字“告知”“告诉”“讲述”某事,强调思想的表达,而不强调表达的方式。引申可表示“吩咐”“嘱托”“命令”“确定”“区分,辨别”“泄露秘密”“猜测”“产生效果”等。

tell的用法2：tell可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词、带疑问词的动词不定式或wh-从句作宾语。也可接双宾语,其直接宾语可以是名词或代词,也可以是带疑问词的动词不定式或that/wh-从句,其间接宾语可以转化为介词to的宾语。

tell的用法3：tell作“吩咐”解时,还可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。

tell的用法4：tell可用于被动结构。

tell的用法5：tell在非正式语体中可以引出直接引语。

tell的过去式例句：

1. Very likely he'd told them he had American business interests.

很可能他已经告诉他们自己拥有美国商业利益.

2. He once told an interviewer that he didn't even like rock music.

他曾告诉一位采访者，他甚至都不喜欢摇滚乐。

3. He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth.

他说了些谎，有时只是对事实添油加醋了一番。

4. He told us to get stuffed so we leaned on his kid.

他叫我们滚蛋，于是我们威胁他的孩子。

5. The police told me. It was a bombshell. I had no idea.

是警察告诉我的。我很震惊，完全没想到。

6. "I told you Preskel had no idea," remarked Kemp with some asperity.

“我告诉过你普雷斯克毫不知情的，”肯普颇为不耐烦地说道。

7. I could use some money, Sarah told him flatly.

萨拉态度坚决地告诉他，我可以用一部分钱。

8. I told him he wasn't welcome in my home.

我告诉他我家不欢迎他。

9. When Myra told Karp she'd expose his past, he blew up.

当迈拉告诉卡普她会把他的过去全抖搂出去时，卡普大为光火。

10. Guy Powell, defending, told magistrates: "It's a sad and disturbing case."

盖伊·鲍威尔在进行辩护时对地方法官说道：“这是一件非常不幸、令人不安的案子。”

11. At seventeen, Daniele was told to leave home by her father.

达妮埃尔17岁时，父亲让她离开了家。

12. She told him she only had his interests at heart.

她告诉他自己万事都是为了他好。

13. Every line etched on her face told a story of personal anguish.

她脸上的每条皱纹都讲述了一次痛苦的经历。

14. Schools were told their exam information had to be spot-on and accurate.

各学校接到通知，要求考试信息必须准确无误。

15. I told her about him climbing up the drainpipe.

我对她讲了他从排水管爬上去的事儿.