The phrase "verbally asked" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a question or request was made through spoken communication rather than in writing.
Example: "During the meeting, she verbally asked for clarification on the project timeline."
Alternatives: "asked in person" or "inquired verbally."
In a demonstration, a Google executive verbally asked Google questions about the weather and maps, but also for more obscure information like a baseball player's salary, a video on quantum physics and his personal flight information, and each time the search engine responded with the answer in a friendly voice.
Response bias could also have had an impact on how caregivers completed the CarerQoL-VAS and the Carer-QoL-VAS 'transfer' because we administered our results by phone and we verbally asked for a score between 0 (completely unhappy) and 10 (completely happy).
Believe It or Not: Early in her career, upon entering her direct reports office, her male boss pointed to her to go under his desk and verbally asked her "to do push ups in the cucumber patch".
In addition, before experimental trials were allowed to continue subjects were shown hard copy color printouts of each grating pattern and verbally asked if they felt familiar enough with each pattern to perform mental imagery of that pattern.
Prior to 2013, employees were verbally asked to participate.
The children were verbally asked about current back or knee pain prior to the testing.
Eddy Cue, an Apple executive, demonstrated how a user could verbally ask her iPhone what song was played in the film "Selma" and have John Legend singing the theme tune within a few seconds.
Deputy Jeff Taylor said that when he approached the woman, "I tried to verbally ask, you know, 'Are you OK? Can you hear me?' And I was getting no response.
"When you have a focus group and you would verbally ask a consumer, 'which directory do you use?' " said Allan Charles, president and chief creative officer at Trahan, Burden, "unvisually aided people would say, 'I use the phone company book.' " "But when you would physically put both books in front of them," he added, "they point to the Yellow Book and say that's the book I use".
Back in 2007 we wrote about a service called Dial Directions which lets you call a special phone number and verbally ask for directions, which are immediately sent to you via SMS.
5. MAKE IT EASY TO HELP YOU DON'T just verbally ask someone to make introduction – the follow through rates on those are usually low, and it puts too much work on the Connector.
