\n Talk<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n	\n Something<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n We talked about<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n	\n <\/span><\/b>the new division<\/span><\/b> (at the meeting).<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Talk<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n	\n Somebody<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The CEO talked to<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n	\n his friend<\/span><\/b> (about the new project).<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/div>\n Simply put, you <\/span>don\u2019t<\/span> use \u2018talk\u2019 <\/span>to express an idea, <\/span><\/span>that a few words<\/span> follow ‘talk’, and talk <\/span>‘talk’ does not come with<\/span> other verbs<\/span>:<\/span> \n \n<\/span> \n<\/span><\/p>\n Talk about a new project<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n talk to the CEO<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n What about \u2018say\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n Yet, the verb \u2018say\u2019 is different<\/span>. <\/span>It is used to express a thought, something that is <\/span>longer than a few words<\/span>, something that has a verb<\/span> in it, for example:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n<\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n The financial secretary said<\/span> that the fund stood at 1 million<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n \u2193<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n \u2193<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n \u2193<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n that + the fund stood at 1 million ——–> (an idea, a thought)<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/div>\n In a word<\/span>, it is all about what follows ‘talk’ and ‘say’:<\/span><\/span> \n \n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018talk\u2019 comes with a <\/span><\/span>few words<\/span>, but <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n \n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n \u2018say\u2019 comes with <\/span>a ‘sentence’ <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n (The next post is about Pair Two: Tell & Speak.)<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Verbs of Mouths (1) How long have you been speaking English? And how good is your spoken English? If I tell you that there is a secret about spoken English that is not known to learners of English? Will you be surprised? Well don\u2019t be. Well, what does the secret have to do with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spoken-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FreeGreatPicture.com-29143-interesting-business-image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}