Review Listen intently meaning Chi tiết

• Listen! What’s that noise? Can you hear it?
• Sorry, I wasn’t really listening.
• He had been listening at the door.
• listen to somebody/something to listen to music/the radio
• to listen to a tuy nhiên/an album
• I listened carefully to her story.
• He was listening intently to what she was saying.
• You havent been listening to a word Ive said!

You cannot listen something (without to) I’m fond of listening to classical music. Im fond of listening classical music. Extra Examples

• He was hardly listening, for he had too much on his mind.
• I listened with half an ear to the conversation at the next table.
• I was listening to the radio.
• Lucy was only half listening to their conversation.
• Now, listen very carefully to what she says.
• Pym listened impassively until the woman had finished.
• The guests were listening with great interest.
• They listened to the announcement in silence.
• We listened politely to his stories.

Topics TV, radio and newsa1, Musica1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb

• actively
• attentively
• carefully

verb + listen

• will
• would
• not bother to

preposition

• for
• to

phrases

• listen with one ear

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• Listen, there’s something I have to tell you.

• I tried to warn her, but she wouldn’t listen.
• listen to somebody/something None of this would have happened if you’d listened to me.
• The government is willing to listen to any concerns that people have.
• Why won’t you listen to reason?

Extra Examples

• You need to listen to me!
• He refused to listen to her explanation.
• I didn’t even bother to listen to his reply.

Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb

• actively
• attentively
• carefully

verb + listen

• will
• would
• not bother to

preposition

• for
• to

phrases

• listen with one ear

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