Hi Dear Sue,
Iam so sorry because I am posting my letter very late.
At first, I want to thank you for posting your special message to Faranak and me. It was very nice and we read it in our class last Friday. I am sorry for friend death.
You are a good friend. You help us for improving our skill in English reading, writing and etc without any expectation and we can't repay you for what you do.
I just tell you "Thank you".
Dear Sue, when I was writing this letter, I had 2 questions. They were "what difference is between say and tell and between improve and progress?".
Please answer my question until again I learn a new thing from you.
Take care, Fattemeh.
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Dear Fattemeh, I hope this answers your question a little bit. English can be very confusing and it even confuses me and I have spoken it for many years! We always invent new words, like download, and upload, and 'cool', meaning new and interesting. Here's my answer to you:
Say and tell are both verbs. Say is used to report something, She said, “I’m hungry.”
If there is an object in the sentence, use ‘to’ with it. I say to you…
I could say, The Koran says (reports),
Tell is used to inform or instruct.
I tell you to stop that.
Tell the children to go to bed. I was told to stop doing that.
Or, tell is used when speaking of narration: Tom is good at telling stories.
We tell time, tell our name, tell lies, and tell the difference. It is confusing, I know. It just takes practice.
Improve and progress are both verbs, but progress can also be a noun, or name word.
Improve means ‘get better’. I must improve my English.
Progress can be used as, I have made progress or I want to progress in my studies. It means to move forward.
Progress as a noun can be used like this: Progress is what we all want to achieve in our studies. You would not say Improve is what we…. Pilgrim’s Progress is a good book.
Now I have a question for you: Why are you studying English?
Your friend, Sue
PS Thank you so much for your kind words. I need no reward for helping someone. My reward is when you then go and help another someone. That's the way Allah's work is done. Sue
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