Allow me to explain by giving you an example from a night class I used to teach in Educational Psychology. After I introduced myself and had made a few opening statements, I asked if there were any questions. Sure enough a young man raised his hand. I told him that there were some things that he was going to learn in this class that were not in the textbook. This is an example of one of those lessons.
Questions are very interesting verbal voyages.
As I said earlier, people often use questions as a way to avoid making statements. I gave an explanation of this notion to the class and then asked the young man to take his question and turn it into a statement. As you can imagine, he was very nervous. That s what I heard you say the first time. Now, don t misunderstand me.