What are you talking about meaning in English

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Definition

What are you talking about?: What are you speaking about? What are you saying? idiom

Examples

  • "Edward : What are you talking about Philip?"
  • "Horatio : What are you talking about?"
  • "Bruno : What are you talking about?"
  • "No! What are you talking about? Maybe it was you!"
  • "Moira : What are you talking about Brent?"
  • "Brian : Potential? What are you talking about?"
  • "Butch : Dude, what are you talking about?"
Exercise 1
Complete the sentences below correctly using the term about.

Chad: Brad, I saw a great film yesterday. It a giant monkey who destroys New York.
Brad: Can't we talk baseball for a change? The game start.
Chad: Sometimes, I think all you care is baseball.
Brad: That's my job. I'm a baseball commentator.
Complete the sentences below correctly using the term about.

Chad: Brad, I saw a great film yesterday. It was about 1 a giant monkey who destroys New York.
Brad: Can't we talk about 2 baseball for a change? The game is about to 3 start.
Chad: Sometimes, I think all you care about 4 is baseball.
Brad: That's my job. I'm a baseball commentator.
1 was about: This is the best choice. To ask what something "is about" is to inquire about its content or subject. Example: -What is the opera about? -It's about a barber who lived in Seville. In the audio, Bruno says that the national anthem "is about the American flag".
1 about: This construction needs the verb "to be", either in the present or past simple tense. Note the construction here: I'm reading a book about the mafia in Naples.
1 about to: We cannot ask what a film is "about to". The construction "be about to" is used to express an imminent action, and cannot be used here.
1 was about to: We cannot ask what a film was "about to". The construction "be about to" is used to express an imminent action, and cannot be used here.
2 about: This is the best choice. The verb "to talk" is often directly followed by the preposition "about". Example: We talked about our holiday in the Bahamas for 2 hours.
2 is about: The verb "to talk" cannot be followed directly by another verb.
2 about to: We talk about something, we cannot talk about TO something.
3 is about to: This is the best choice here. "To be about" to do something expresses an imminent action in the past or present tense. Bruno says that the game "is about to start" meaning that it will begin very imminently.
3 about: We must precede the preposition "about" with the verb "to be" to correctly complete this sentence.
3 is about: We must follow this construction with "to" in order to correctly complete this sentence.
4 about: This is the best choice. "To care about something" is to have an interest in it. Example: He cared about cricket, which was strange because he was French.'
4 to be about: Using this construction is incorrect in this sentence.
4 about to: Using this construction is incorrect in this sentence.

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