Can You Use The Word TELL Fluently

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in today’s video i’m going to tell you

about a word that is commonly used and

it has two meanings the first one

english learners often know but the

second meaning is so commonly used by

native speakers but English learners

often don’t use it in this way so today

i’m going to share with you the second

meaning that is often used are you ready

let’s go this commonly used word is the

word tell tell now the word tell has two

meanings the first one that is most

commonly known is to talk to say

something are you going to tell me the

answer he told me what happened

yesterday to talk about something he

told me are you going to tell me but the

second meaning is often used but is not

often used by English learners in the

word tell in the second way means to

understand or to know or to inform about

something so I’ll give you lots of

sample sentences so that after this

video you can easily use it yourself

let’s get started with the first example

the first sample sentence is the

sentence I couldn’t tell if he was a boy

or a girl

this doesn’t mean I couldn’t say if he

was a boy or a girl it means I didn’t

know if he was a boy or a girl I

couldn’t tell if he was a boy or a girl

it was hard to tell it was hard to know

if he was a boy or a girl it was hard to

know I couldn’t tell if he was a boy or

a girl

I couldn’t tell by looking at his face

I couldn’t tell by looking at his face I

didn’t know by looking at his face I

didn’t know if he was a boy or a girl

when I saw his face this is talking

about knowing something or understanding

something I couldn’t I didn’t know if he

was a boy or a girl I couldn’t tell if

he was a boy or a girl

let’s go to the second example the

second example is I can usually tell

when someone is lying to me I can

usually tell when someone is lying to me

this means I can easily understand when

someone is lying to me it’s easy for me

to see if someone is lying to me I can

tell if it’s if they’re telling the

truth or if it’s a lie I can usually

tell when someone is lying to me now

it’s very possible and it’s perfect

English to say I it’s easy for me to see

if someone is lying to me it’s easy for

me to know if someone is lying to me but

it is really natural and fluent if you

say I can usually tell when someone is

lying to me this has the same meaning to

know something to understand something I

can usually tell I can I can’t easily

tell when someone is lying to me or I

can easily tell I hope that this short

video about the second meaning of the

word tell was useful to you and now I

have a challenge for you in the comments

below can you write a sample sentence

using this definition of the word tell I

couldn’t tell if he was a boy or a girl

it’s hard to tell I couldn’t tell by

looking at his face I can usually tell

when someone is lying to me it’s your

turn

to write a sample sentence and if you

want me to correct your sentence let me

know I’ll see you in the comments

goodbye

you