Given below are four different senses of the word ‘tell’. Match the meanings to the uses listed above.
1. make something known to someone in spoken or written words
2. count while reciting
3. be sure
4. give information to somebody

Question

Have you known someone like the author’s grandmother? Do you feel the same sense of loss with regard to someone whom you have loved and lost?

Answer 1

Sentence 1: Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary.

Meaning: 2. count while reciting

Sentence 2: I would tell her English words and little things of Western science and learning.

Meaning: 1. make something known to someone in spoken or written words

Sentence 3: At her age one could never tell.

Meaning: 3. be sure

Sentence 4: She told us that her end was near.

Meaning: 4. give information to somebody

Solution and Explanation