了 question As I said in my previous notepad entry I watch desperate housewives on a chinese website. I read a sentence and try to recreate it on google translate. I wrote this sentence: 但我告诉了他们 But the subtitles actually say this: 但我告诉他们了 I thought the 了 modal particle comes after a verb in this case 告诉, but in the subtitles as you can see 了 comes after the subject. Are the rules very defined for its use or are both examples correct in their use of 了?