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Answer and Answer to - WordReference Forums I answer the teacher when she calls on me He won't answer his mother Joe refuses to answer the questions In English, the verbal construction "answer to" is used in a very particular way If I say, "I answer to Joe, not to you," that could mean Joe is my boss and I might do what he says, but I won't do what you say
Answer to my question or answer on my question? @KedarMhaswade: You can answer the source of the external utterance (another person, a phone), but you answer to whatever the external utterance is (a word or words used in the utterance, or the form or format of the utterance): I answered her, I answered the phone, I answered to his call, I answered to my name
Answer the question answer TO the questions - WordReference Forums Hello I'm working on a text comprehension and for the instructions I want to tell the students that they have to work on the questions individually Which one is correct: 1) Answer to the questions individually 2) Answer the questions individually 3) Answer individually the questions 4)
When should you write answer versus response? Answer is more specifically a response to a direct question One can always respond to anything (an event, an injury, a letter, a speech, a question ) but one can only answer a question As Emanuil said, it's also possible to respond to a question without actually answering it; listen to politicians being interviewed
punctuation - Could you please answer this question - English . . . A request disguised as a question does not require a question mark Such formulations can usually be reduced to the imperative Would you kindly respond by March 1 or Please respond by March 1 But on the politeness question, appropriateness is in the eye of the beholder
politeness - Polite way to refuse to answer a question - English . . . The answer "Mu" is along the lines of "is Schrodinger's cat dead or alive " "Mu" in that sense means "the answer is both yes and no" Not in the sense of "I don't know" but in the sense of "it is actually both at the same time " However, the answer to your actual question is different Your question is more about social graces than specific