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take questions
answer audience questions
To take questions means to invite and answer questions from the audience.
This vs that
I'll take questions now.
I'll give a presentation now.
Hear it in real life
Shall we take questions now?
Yes, there are already a few hands up.
I'll take questions after I've explained the main proposal.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
This is the normal concise phrase used by speakers; the stiff version sounds like an official announcement.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: At the end, the speaker took question from audience.
Say: At the end, the speaker took questions from the audience.
Use the plural 'questions' and 'the audience' in this context.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
take questions; take questions from someone
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about presentations.
to put it simply
To put it simply, sales have doubled since January.
I'd like to highlight ___
I'd like to highlight three key findings today.
Presentations words
Work · Presentations: the words around “take questions”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
I'll take questions now.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
take questions
answer audience questions
“I'll take questions after I've explained the main proposal.”
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