interviewer

«interviewer» in Mova's school dictionary: The person who asks the questions in an interview, for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an interviewer, interviewers)

meaning for a pupil

1) The person who asks the questions in an interview, for example on TV, radio, in a newspaper or for a job. tree →

2) A person who asks people questions for a survey or a study. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English and media lessons pupils play the interviewer, plan open questions and take notes; in history projects they interview older relatives. In news and stories the interviewer leads the conversation and can be friendly or tough. Phrases: a TV interviewer, the interviewer asked, a tough interviewer.

examples

• The interviewer asked me why I wanted to join the club. tree →
• A famous interviewer spoke to the prime minister on the radio. tree →
• As the interviewer, you should ask open questions. tree →
• The interviewer wrote down every answer. tree →
• Our class interviewer asked the firefighter about his job. tree →
• The interviewer was kind, so I stopped feeling nervous. tree →
• A survey interviewer knocked on our door and asked about recycling. tree →

note

Countable: an interviewer, interviewers. «-er» = the one who asks; «-ee» = the one who answers (interviewee). Spelling: «interview» + «-er», with «ie» as in «view».

In the corpora

• Answering a different question to dodge the real one is called a red herring; good interviewers ask the question again.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «interviewer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.