What is the verb for attention?
Could you please advise me the difference between the following phrases:
to take attention
to call attention
to pay attention
to draw attention
For example: “Please draw attention that due to technical problems….”; “Pay attention to tenses, and check your punctuation.”
Lola
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to take attention
I'm not familiar with this phrase
to call attention
This means to get someone to 'pay attention' to something.
I would like to call your attention to the equation on the board.
to pay attention
To heed. Listen to something or look at something.
Please pay attention to what I am saying
to draw attention
To make someone look at something, but more passively.
The girl's hair was dyed green, and she drew attention. People looked at her.
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answered Nov 20 '12 at 18:13
Lewis Neidhardt
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