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Difference between said and told Wed Sep 28, 2005 17:52 pm  Difference between said and told
 

Test No. errors/inter-3 "Sally and her Letter", question 2

She said her boss that she would be unable to come to work the following day because her car had broken down.

(a) said
(b) would be
(c) to
(d) had

Test No. errors/inter-3 "Sally and her Letter", answer 2

She told her boss that she would be unable to come to work the following day because her car had broken down.

Correct entry: told
The error was: (a) said
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Difference between said and told Wed Sep 28, 2005 18:28 pm  Difference between said and told
 

Hi Fernando

In this particular sentence you would have to use said as follows: She said to her boss that ..

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Difference between said and told Tue May 02, 2006 11:32 am  Difference between said and told
 

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Hi Fernando

In this particular sentence you would have to use said as follows: She said to her boss that ..

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I answered "said to" here.Why the website told me I was wrong :?: :?: :?: :?:

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Difference between said and told Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:37 am  Difference between said and told
 

The same thing happens to me !!!
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Said Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:05 am  Said
 

HI,

Said to is not one of the choices.

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Difference between said and told Thu Sep 21, 2006 13:32 pm  Difference between said and told
 

Hi Alan

I assume that lost_soul and Christina's son both mean that they selected "said" as the error and then typed in "said to" as the correction. But doing that results in the software telling you that 'your answer is incorrect'.

Am I correct in assuming that it's only possible to program in one correct answer per question in the tests?

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Hi lost_soul

Although "said to" would be grammatically correct, it is definitely more natural / typical to use the word "told" in that sentence.

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Said to vs. told Thu Sep 21, 2006 16:52 pm  Said to vs. told
 

Hi Amy,

We can add several correct answer options to each of the error sentences so said to will be correct in this question too.
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Difference between said and told Thu Sep 21, 2006 17:07 pm  Difference between said and told
 

Hi Torsten

That sounds great! Very Happy

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