Question
Question verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Inevitably, whoever has just been told that Cho is blind will start to wave their hand in front of Cho's face to test him (which Cho can sense because of the Tao) only for Cho to catch the hand in question and tell the person off while complaining about everyone doing it.
Source: Never Heard That One Before -
Not technically a question, but "You need to tell me what happened to Scott" certainly counts in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Source: Armor-Piercing Question -
Because they are so visually similar, in many visual media it can be hard to tell whether the bird in question is meant to be a raven or a crow.
Source: Creepy Crows
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