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Hi, everybody.

My name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to talk about three verbs.

I'm going to talk about the difference between answer, reply and respond.

So let's get started.

Okay.

First, let's take a look at the verb answer to answer the meaning of the verb to answer is one to react to a question.

So a simple question.

What time is it?

What's your name?

How are you?

Those air?

Simple questions.

So when we react to that, like 12 o'clock Alicia, I'm good.

Those are all answers, and we can say I answered the question in response so we can use it in that way.

But we can also use it when we're taking tests, tests or examinations when we include or we choose, uh, an answer as a noun when we choose something on the test and we mark that that's called answering a question on a test.

So we use answer for, like, verbal questions and written questions, but we also use it for test questions, too, so this is good to keep in mind.

When you're answering something, you're answering some questions, or there's some some questions, some inquiry that you're reacting to.

So there's something that's like a question being posed.

That's a good thing to keep in mind for this firm.

Also, we use answer for these two cases when we pick up the phone.

So there's an incoming phone call.

Your phone is ringing when you pick up the phone.

We use the verb answer to describe that we say to answer the phone, Please answer your phone.

We also use it when guests come to our homes or to our offices or to other locations when the guest arrives at the door or at the reception.

Or there's some kind of door area where you need to receive your guests.

We use the verb answer to refer to opening the door and greeting the guests.

So if someone knocks on the door to announce they have arrived at your home, you go to the door.

Open it, we say.

That's called answering the door.

So please answer the door.

Our guests are here, so to answer the door is to open the door when guests arrive.

To answer your phone is to pick up the phone when your phone rings.

So these are a couple of other ways that we use the verb answer.

Let's look at some examples now, too.

All right, 1st 1 please answer the questions.

Please answer the questions.

We could use this for a test.

We could use this in like a discussion as well.

Please answer the question.

This is a very simple bass way to use a basic way to use.

Answer here for a test.

Answer all questions within 30 minutes.

So here's a command answer all questions within 30 minutes on a test.

Probably.

Here's a negative example he didn't answer in this case.

He didn't answer his phone.

So if you call someone and the other person does not pick up the phone, they don't answer their phone.

This is how you can explain that.

He didn't answer and we remove this part.

He didn't answer because from the situation, it's quite clear he didn't answer his phone.

We know it's his phone because you were on the phone, so he didn't answer.

We can use it in this way.

Okay, now that's answer.

Let's take a look at reply.

Next reply.

Reply is used to, uh, to mean to react to a statement or a question.

So someone says something someone poses.

A question asks a question to react to that.

We can use the verb reply or rather, we can use replied to refer to our reaction to that thing.

So we'll see in just a moment.

Reply is not as formal as respond.

Actually, from these verbs when I'm emailing, I tend to use reply in my emails a lot more.

Thank you very much for your reply, for example, so that's used as a noun, but you can use it as a verb.

So, like please reply at your earliest convenience, for example, you could use that two e mails.

That's what I intend to use anyway.

Some examples of using reply here first, she replies to e mails really quickly.

So meaning she reacts to people's e mails really quickly.

And by do end, she therefore returns the statement.

She g gives something back, she replies.

Another example.

He never replied to my messages his past tense, So I sent a message to someone I did not receive a reaction so I can say he never replied to my message.

Here's another one.

We also use this in writing, like in novels and books to describe someone's reaction.

A question.

What time is it?

12 o'clock, he replied.

So you'll see this in books.

Lots of storytelling uses.

Reply as well.

Reply in response or respond as a verb in more formal situations, but replies kind of like a basic sort of neutral level reaction to something.

So I tend to use reply a za noun and as a verb, a lot in my email writing.

Okay, let's move along to respond, then so respond.

Also like reply.

It means to react to a statement or a question.

So these two have that same meaning.

However, respond sounds a bit more formal than reply.

So if you use respond in like a text message to your friend like please respond to my message or please respond by tomorrow, it might sound too formal.

Reply is probably better when you're texting your friends like please reply to the invitation by tomorrow.

Sounds much more natural.

Respond would be good at work when you're using um, like work email for something or when you're on the phone as well.

So using this is much better for, like business situations.

Also respond has an additional meaning that's not related exactly to communication.

Respond can also mean to have a good reaction to something to have a good reaction to something.

So I'll share some examples of this.

But this is not the focus meaning for this lesson, but I'll introduce some examples.

Okay, so let's look at examples of this part.

First, I need to respond to that email.

I need to respond to that email.

Maybe you're telling your boss I need to respond to that email from the client.

Sounds a little more formal.

It sounds a little more important.

Another one a question.

Have you responded to those enquiries yet?

Have you responded to those enquiries yet?

So you received, like client in Cory's or customer enquiries and inquiry is a question.

So have you responded to those enquiries?

Another one?

A negative.

They're not going to respond.

They're not going to respond.

So this is you're making a guess.

A good, probably a strong guest.

The other party or it may be the client.

The customer is not going to respond.

They're not going to react to something.

Okay, so as I mentioned, respond does have this other meaning of reacting favorably, reacting well to something.

So we used him for, like, public reactions to things.

We can use them a lot for medicine, like treatments and so on.

Ah, so here's one.

She responded well to treatment.

She responded.

Well, to treatment doesn't mean she said something or she wrote something.

It means she received some treatment.

She's sick.

So she received some treatment, some medicine of some kind, and her body was happy about the treatment.

There was a good response.

Her body responded well, so there was a good reaction in her body.

That's what this means here.

Second example sentence.

I think the public will respond well to this policy.

So this is a prediction.

The speaker is making a guess.

So they have this new policy.

The speaker thinks the public, the general people out there in that society will respond Well, In other words, they will have a good reaction to this new policy.

So this use of response is a little different from kind of reacting to a statement or reacting to a question.

It's actually having a good reaction to something so slightly different.

And you might see this in news.

Ah, lot, too.

So keep an eye out for that.

Okay, so this is a basic introduction to the differences between answer, reply and respond.

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