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Lucas21c Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

When I hand a phone someone, what can I do say?

When I hand a phone someone, what can I say?
"Take it" is okay?
  

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lucas21c When I hand a phone to someone, what can I say? It depends on the context. You may say, "It's for you" if the person on the other end of the line gas asked to speak to your 'somebody'.

— Fivejedjon

  • lucas21c When I hand a phone to someone, what can I say?
  • It depends on the context.
  • You may say, "It's for you" if the person on the other end of the line gas asked to speak to your 'somebody'.
  • If the person you are passing the phone to has asked you to pass it to them, you may say"Here you are", or you may say nothing at all.
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lucas21cWhen I hand a phone to someone, what can I say?
It depends on the context.

You may say, "It's for you" if the person on the other end of the line gas asked to speak to your 'somebody'.
If the person you are passing the phone to has asked you to pass it to them, you may say"Here you are", or you may say nothing at all.
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If I want my friend to talk with the person on the other end of the line, 'take it' sounds awkward? For example, three of us are all friends, and I am talking with one of them on the phone, and the other friend just sats next to me. In the case of that, if the friend on the line asks me about somthing but I can't' answer the question, so I want to pass a phone to my the other friend, what can I sa
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I'd say something like "Bill wants to know .... .Can you tell Him?, and hand him the phone.

'Take it' is rarely natural.
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How about "Get the phone?"
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That is a rather brusque way of telling someone to answer the phone in BrE.
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