inquires
- 1Third-person singular simple present of inquire.
The manager inquires about the cause of the delay whenever a shipment runs late.
A careful reporter inquires into matters that others would rather ignore.
Note
The form a singular subject takes in the present: she inquires, the committee inquires, while I, you and they keep plain inquire. It works with or without a direct object, and most often leans on a preposition: about for asking (inquires about a delay), into for investigating (inquires into a matter). In the sense of simply asking, it belongs to American, Canadian and Australian English. The old meaning 'to call or name' is obsolete.
inquires is a form of inquire
inquire, verb: To ask in order to obtain information about something. Full entry
- Spelling
- inquire → inquires: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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