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Is it correct to say told to?
No. There is no difference in the normal sense between told and said to.
Is to used after told?
“to” can come after “tell”; it just can’t come immediately after “tell”. The verb “tell” must be followed by an object.
Is it telling or told?
If you want to recount that something happened during the telling, you would use “He was telling me”. If you simply wanted to state the fact that he told you, the tense depends on whether he has already left on vacation.
Was told or have been told?
I was told = Someone once told me and I (i) believed them (ii) did not believe them. I have been told = Someone once told but I am unsure as to whether I should believe it.
Where do we use told?
Told is used to report what someone else has spoken to a specific person or a group of persons. Said is used prominently in indirect speech. Told is used generously in direct speech.
Did I tell or told?
I did tell, OR I told (with no “did”). Note, if you hear “done told,” this is incorrect. The second way, which is incorrect, says “I did told.” This is redundant, using the past tense twice.
Is it telling or was told?
If you want to recount that something happened during the telling, you would use “He was telling me”. If you simply wanted to state the fact that he told you, the tense depends on whether he has already left on vacation. So: He was telling me that he was going on vacation, when the phone rang.
Is it “I told him or I told him to”?
Nonetheless, to your question, the answer is “I told him.” “I told him” is the correct format. As “him” is already indicating the person, so “to” is not essential there. HELLO!
Is it correct to say I said to him or to him?
If you must use the preposition “to”, then this is the correct way – I said to him. There’s more to this rule. If you are familiar with the concept of reported / indirect speech, you must use “said to” for direct speech and “told” for indirect speech.
Is “I told him all kinds of different things” grammatically correct?
In this example it would be easier to say “I told him all kinds of different things,” but in my opinion it is grammatically correct to say, “I told all kinds of different things to him.” Nonetheless, to your question, the answer is “I told him.” “I told him” is the correct format.
What is the difference between ‘said’ and ‘told’?
Said is the past participle of say and told, that of tell.Both are informal usages,however, told is more emphatic and means to inform something to someone. We use it mostly in indirect or reported speech.That is how we have arrived at the usage, whenever we convert direct speech to indirect speech, we use told instead of said.