Come and Tell

Come

Come verb - To move closer to.

Tell and come are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tell" instead a verb "Come".

Nearby Words: coming, comer

Tell

Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

Come and tell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come" instead a verb "Tell".

Nearby Words: telling, teller

Common collocations

girl come girl tell girl
time come time tell time
way come way tell way
world come world tell world
Other words: story, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Very Special Episode Elmo gets very terrified about this, until some real firefighters come and tell him everything will be just fine.
  • Morale is down so the Pointy-Haired Boss takes drastic action - he hires someone to come and tell the staff that it'll be okay.
  • Gabriel Gray/Sylar: [to Chandra] When I was a kid I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn't really my family.
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