Hi Sundram,
Thanks for the greetings! Unfortunately you did prompt to a different sense instead to clear the real agony of the base question. Regards, my spellings error, you are right, we adults too pays bit attention as you also have done some error in your email. See the first line Engllish...instead English and lots of little kids hardly pay..instead pays...etc. This all happens.. Any way thanks for the response. Regards Poonam
From India, Delhi
1Thanks for the greetings! Unfortunately you did prompt to a different sense instead to clear the real agony of the base question. Regards, my spellings error, you are right, we adults too pays bit attention as you also have done some error in your email. See the first line Engllish...instead English and lots of little kids hardly pay..instead pays...etc. This all happens.. Any way thanks for the response. Regards Poonam
From India, Delhi
"Who are you calling" gives two meanings 1. who are you who want to call & 2. who the hell are you calling.
So its better to change the way as " May I know who is online?"
or "Yes; Vaibhav here"
or " Vaibhav this side"
-Vaibhav
From India, Mumbai
So its better to change the way as " May I know who is online?"
or "Yes; Vaibhav here"
or " Vaibhav this side"
-Vaibhav
From India, Mumbai
you can say who is there, who is calling, I know you want to give respect someone that's why you are using 'are" instead of is but in English language there is no respect this only can with Hindi. As i think Hindi is more civilized than English.
From India, Chandigarh
From India, Chandigarh
Dear Poonam,
Often the use of English leads to a slight confusion or misunderstanding depending on how it is stated or used. "Who are you calling?" the question you are asking isn't grammatically incorrect at all; however, it depends on who is asking it.
Example:
Scenarion 1: Gia is talking to someone over the phone at 11:30 pm. Her dad walks into the hall and sees her. the first thing he'll say is "Who are you talking to? not "Who are you calling?"
Scenario 2: Gia answers the phone and the person on the other end asks to speak with her father. The first question Gia asks is "May I know who is speaking? not "Who are you calling?"
Scenario 3: Gia and her friend get into trouble for rash driving. They are taken to a police station for interrogation. They are allowed one call. Gia asks her frined "Who are you calling?"
I hope I was able to answer your question.
From India, Pune
Often the use of English leads to a slight confusion or misunderstanding depending on how it is stated or used. "Who are you calling?" the question you are asking isn't grammatically incorrect at all; however, it depends on who is asking it.
Example:
Scenarion 1: Gia is talking to someone over the phone at 11:30 pm. Her dad walks into the hall and sees her. the first thing he'll say is "Who are you talking to? not "Who are you calling?"
Scenario 2: Gia answers the phone and the person on the other end asks to speak with her father. The first question Gia asks is "May I know who is speaking? not "Who are you calling?"
Scenario 3: Gia and her friend get into trouble for rash driving. They are taken to a police station for interrogation. They are allowed one call. Gia asks her frined "Who are you calling?"
I hope I was able to answer your question.
From India, Pune
Dear Gillian,
Thank you for explaining with scenarios. Had Poonam given the scenario which prompted her to pose the question, it would have saved a lot of discussion.
May I take this opportunity to appeal to members to pose questions giving enough information for people, instead of expecting bloggers to guess the situation.
Have a nice day.
Simhan
A retired academic in the UK.
From United Kingdom
Thank you for explaining with scenarios. Had Poonam given the scenario which prompted her to pose the question, it would have saved a lot of discussion.
May I take this opportunity to appeal to members to pose questions giving enough information for people, instead of expecting bloggers to guess the situation.
Have a nice day.
Simhan
A retired academic in the UK.
From United Kingdom
Ok. The spelling of the word 'Grammer' is wrong. First find out what is the correct spelling. You may start another post asking the correct spelling of the word. And I am sure there will be so many like the respondents to this question, who will again respond.
Once you know the correct spelling of the word "Grammer", you will be ready for the step 2, which will be the syntax formation lesson.
Keep doing it and soon you will get BA (Honours) in English just by reading this post.
From India, New Delhi
Once you know the correct spelling of the word "Grammer", you will be ready for the step 2, which will be the syntax formation lesson.
Keep doing it and soon you will get BA (Honours) in English just by reading this post.
From India, New Delhi
Dear All,
Thanks for your valuable response on this issue. I am indeed delighted to have good comments and clarification posted by you all. Now let us not make this any more controversial, e.g., spelling errors etc. Have a nice day ahead
Poonam
From India, Delhi
Thanks for your valuable response on this issue. I am indeed delighted to have good comments and clarification posted by you all. Now let us not make this any more controversial, e.g., spelling errors etc. Have a nice day ahead
Poonam
From India, Delhi
Hi Poonam I would like to tell you that the correct sentence "Who is speaking" is the correct one rather than "Who are calling?"
From United States, Lincolnshire
From United States, Lincolnshire
Hello Gillianbarber,
Thanks for answering the question in such a nice way. I agree with your suggestion.
Since "who are you calling" is not grammatical incorrect, it is like any other interrogative sentence like "what are you doing?". It purely depends on the person's tone. For one case it might sound demanding and in other it might seem polite, as it is in examples given by you.
Thanks,
Gaurav
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P.S. Poonam, you have posted a good question on this forum and you should not worry about critics, it helps to improve one self. I could see that most of the people who replied to your post were not able to give the reasoning behind what is wrong in using sentence "who are you calling". Instead they were behind the other way of saying or spell check of "grammer".
From India, Pune
Thanks for answering the question in such a nice way. I agree with your suggestion.
Since "who are you calling" is not grammatical incorrect, it is like any other interrogative sentence like "what are you doing?". It purely depends on the person's tone. For one case it might sound demanding and in other it might seem polite, as it is in examples given by you.
Thanks,
Gaurav
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P.S. Poonam, you have posted a good question on this forum and you should not worry about critics, it helps to improve one self. I could see that most of the people who replied to your post were not able to give the reasoning behind what is wrong in using sentence "who are you calling". Instead they were behind the other way of saying or spell check of "grammer".
From India, Pune
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