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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asking the name" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of inquiring about someone's name, but it is typically phrased differently.
Example: "I was asking the name of the new employee during the meeting."
Alternatives: "inquiring about the name" or "requesting the name".
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First, the teacher interrupted the attack by asking the name of the student with the horns.
Weinberg took the time to chat to the precocious youngster, even asking the name of his favourite stock.That may have been the most productive half-hour of Weinberg's life.
After Greene's death, she received a letter from his friend Michael Richey recounting their first meeting on Capri and asking the name of the poem that brought them together.
In 1985, 11 years before he died, Dahlgren wrote a letter to an old teammate, Al Lopez, asking the name of a scout who Lopez said was present at dinner when the owner of the Indianapolis minor league club told him that Rickey had "gone to great lengths to damage my reputation by saying I smoked marijuana".
"If you're asking the name to do a lot of work for you, you're in trouble already," he said.
To highlight this fact, Hirani recounted (during an interview) an incident with a chai-wallah boy (who brings tea to the crew) during production: The boy was curious, he was a big Munnabhai fan and kept asking the name of the film.
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I had already on that first day started asking the names for things in Fore and I saw a frog and I pointed and the person said "dakwo".
Finally, the headquarters man asked the name of the architect.
A photographer asked the name of one of them.
Asked the name, Mr. Shehadeh's voice fell.
The memory makes Bennett smile — until he is asked the name of the gang.
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