Communication
take something literally
understand exact words
To understand someone's words in their exact, non-figurative meaning.
Hear it in real life
I said I was starving.
You should not take that literally.
She was joking, but he took the comment literally.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: He took literally my joke.
Say: He took my joke literally.
Put the object between “take” and “literally” in this common pattern.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
take something literally; be taken literally
Your turn: say it out loud
She was joking, but he took the comment literally.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
take something literally
understand exact words
“She was joking, but he took the comment literally.”
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