Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: She told to me the news.

Correct — A. The highlighted part is told to me. Tell takes the listener directly as its object, with no preposition: tell + person + thing.

So: She told me the news. The listener takes to only when the thing comes first: She told the news to me.

Told me removes the stray to and keeps the tense → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  told for me — told for me swaps one wrong preposition for another. For would mean on my behalf; tell takes the listener with no preposition at all.
• (c)
  said to me — said to me changes the verb, and She said to me the news is not idiomatic. News is told; say reports words or a that-clause: She said to me that…
• (d)
  has told to me — has told to me keeps the same error, to before the listener, and switches to the present perfect for no reason in the sentence.

Tell is a double-object verb: tell someone something (told me the news, told him a story). The listener comes straight after the verb, with no preposition. When the thing comes first, the listener takes to: told the news to me.

Say works differently. It takes the words spoken or a that-clause, and a named listener needs to: She said to me that the results were in.

Key facts

• Tell + person + thing: She told me the news.
• Tell + thing + to + person: She told the news to me.
• Say + to + person + that-clause: She said to me that…
• Explain and describe need to before the listener: explain it to me.

Common traps

• Choosing said to me because say to someone is correct English. Say still cannot take the news as its object this way.
• Carrying over the pattern of explain or describe, which do need to, to tell, which does not.

No directly related past PYQ was found.