English in a Minute: Which verbs can you use with the noun 'question'?
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
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We can 'frame', 'fire' and 'field' questions. These are some verbs that are commonly used with the noun 'question'. You can learn these and more with Phil in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.8 | Here's a question for you. What verbs can we use with question? |
| 0:09.7 | We have questions. We can also fire questions at someone, and that means ask lots of questions |
| 0:17.0 | quickly. I have a question for you. What did you do yesterday? She wasn't prepared for the |
| 0:23.5 | interviewers to fire questions at her like that. Framing a question or phrasing a question |
| 0:29.9 | means thinking about the words you use. You're framing these questions to make me look bad. |
| 0:37.4 | To ask about personal problems, you need to |
| 0:40.3 | phrase your questions carefully. We answer questions, but we also field questions if there are a lot of them, |
| 0:48.3 | and they're difficult, and we evade questions if we try to avoid them. He fielded the angry customers' questions about the faulty products. |
| 0:57.5 | Don't change the subject. |
| 0:59.5 | You're just trying to evade the question. |
| 1:01.7 | You can frame or phrase your questions, fire them at someone, and hope they don't evade them. |
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