he told me to rest for a while.'--for a while.'he said.A:to

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你这句是祈使句与间接引语的转换.如直接引语是祈使句,那变成间接引语时,为：
tell/ask/order sb (not) to do sth,反之也成立.如：
"Sit down!" he said to me.----He asked me to sit down.
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