Để diễn đạt hành động "NÓI" trong tiếng Anh người ta thường dùng 4 động từ: SAY, TELL, TALK, SPEAK. Bạn đã biết sự khác nhau giữa chúng, hãy cùng đọc và phân biệt để sử dụng chính xác nhé:
► ‘Say’ dùng trong một số trường hợp sau:
1. Say something (to somebody) -- [conveying info] -- ‘Orlando Bloom said (to me) that he enjoyed punching Bieber.’2. Say to someone -- [convey info to a person] -- ‘Doraemon said to me that I need to bring him more rats.’
3. Say (something) in (a language) -- [expressing in a language] -- ‘How would you say that in English?’
► ‘Speak’ thể hiện tính trang trọng cao, có thể dùng trong một số trường hợp như dưới đây:
1. Speak (to someone) -- [act aiming to the receiver of info] -- ‘Taylor hasn’t spoken to me since.’2. Speak about something -- [discuss] -- ‘They speak about butterflies for hours.’
3. Speak (a language) -- [ability] -- ‘Do you speak Swahili?’
4. Speak of something -- [regarding something] -- ‘I love Saturday Night Live. Speaking of SNL, have you seen the newest one?’
5. IDM: speak ill of (someone) -- ‘Never speak ill of the dead.’
► ‘Talk’ có một số cách dùng thông dụng, bao gồm:
1. Talk (to/with someone) about something – [express things in words] -- ‘They keep talking about birds and bees.’2. Talk of something -- [debate as a possibility] -- They have been talking of divorce.
3. Talk (a language) -- [to use a language] -- ‘They talk French to practice.’
4. IDM: talk back [to reply rudely] vs. Talk bad behind one’s back [speak ill of]
► ‘Tell’
1. Tell (someone) something -- [revealing info] -- ‘He never told me that.’2. Tell someone to do something -- [requesting an action] -- ‘They told me to shut up.’
3. Tell (someone) about something -- [giving an account] -- ‘Tell me about your new girlfriend.’
4. Tell -- [determining something] -- ‘Who can tell what killed her.’
***Một số lưu ý:
► Chúng ta dùng ‘Tell the truth’, ‘speak the truth’, ‘say the truth’ (mỗi cách dùng đều có nét nghĩa khác nhau) nhưng không dùng ‘talk the truth’.
► Ta cũng dùng ‘tell lies / a lie’ nhưng không nói ‘speak lie’, ‘talk lie’ hay ‘say lie’.
► Chúng ta có thể nói ‘Tell a lie’ nhưng phải luôn là tell ‘the truth’.
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