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The phrase "ask one person" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the action of inquiring or seeking information from a single individual.
Example: "If you're unsure about the project details, just ask one person for clarification."
Alternatives: "inquire with one individual" or "consult a single person".
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Week 3: Ask one person for a developmental piece of feedback on a specific situation.
"I'm not saying that we won't ask one person to be in charge.
So far I've only tried to ask one person about it - James, the waiter in Pizza Hut - and it went down badly.
4. If you could ask one person between now and their death four questions, who would it be and what would the questions involve?
I'd ask one person and I'd be referred to somebody else and then to somebody else until I finally found a couple of good people.
"Guests should only have to ask one person for what they want," says Ross Klein, the senior vice president and chief marketing officer for W Hotels. Asked if the "whatever" that's requested gets a little too * whatever, he adds, "On weekends we're considering adding a caveat: Whatever, Whenever -- as long as it's legal".
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"What should we eat, then?" asked one person on an Internet discussion forum.
"Is this how we find out who goes to heaven and who goes to hell? #TheDress," asked one person on Twitter.
A Reddit user accused Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, of ripping off Jase Harley's 2016 song "American Pharaoh". "Did all of Jamie's scripts get burned in a fire...?" asked one person on Twitter.
Given that household natural hazard preparedness is typically a joint decision-making process shared between spouses (Hung 2017), and given that partners do not necessarily agree with one another on preparedness, asking one person to answer questions about household natural hazard preparedness might result in incomplete or inaccurate information.
"Have you forgotten who bombed us?" asked one person when I mentioned I was doing the test.
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