the teacher-------------his students to hand in their compositions before Friday知道是选told,

问题描述:

the teacher-------------his students to hand in their compositions before Friday
知道是选told,

老师让他的学生周五之前把作文交上来。

老师告诉学生们在周五之前交作文

The teacher told his students to hand in their composotions before Friday.
老师告诉学生们在星期五之前把作文交上来.
tell sb.to do sth.告诉某人做某事.此处大概是需要联系上下文判断时态用一般过去时,或者是描述过去发生的场景.
hand in 上交
composition 作文
Friday就不用解释了吧.

老师叫学生周五之前把作文交上来
tell sb. to do sth 叫某人做某事