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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

think aloud

What does "think aloud" mean exactly?

Can it be used in this context?

When she was told that her room is messy and needed to be cleaned, she thought aloud (to herself) "Look! who's talking".
  

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"think aloud" (or "think out loud") means to say what you are thinking in a kind of spontaneous or "unfiltered" way that may not be fully appropriate for the situation or fully coherent to others. So, your context seems to makes sense, but I'm not sure whether one can really think aloud "to oneself". It seems like a confusion with the expression "think to oneself".

— GPY

  • "think aloud" (or "think out loud") means to say what you are thinking in a kind of spontaneous or "unfiltered" way that may not be fully appropriate for the situation or fully coherent to others.
  • So, your context seems to makes sense, but I'm not sure whether one can really think aloud "to oneself".
  • It seems like a confusion with the expression "think to oneself".
  • " "When she was told that her room was messy" normally reads better.
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"think aloud" (or "think out loud") means to say what you are thinking in a kind of spontaneous or "unfiltered" way that may not be fully appropriate for the situation or fully coherent to others. So, your context seems to makes sense, but I'm not sure whether one can really think aloud "to oneself". It seems like a confusion with the expression "think to oneself".

It should be "Look who'
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Ah.. then I think the expression I was looking for that context is "think to oneself". The phrase means you don't speak up but think of something in your head, right?
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moon7296 Ah.. then I think the expression I was looking for that context is "think to oneself". The phrase means you don't speak up but think of something in your head, right?
Right.
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