He heard someone speak/shout/call his name.

[tufguy]

"He heard somebody shout his name."

"He heard somebody call his name."

"He heard someone speak his name."

"He heard two three people call his name."

"He heard two three people shout his name."

Please check.

 

[Skrej]

The last two have a problem. I'm not sure what you mean by 'two three' - is that supposed to be 'two or three'? "Two to three"?

 

[tufguy]

The last two have a problem. I'm not sure what you mean by 'two three' - is that supposed to be 'two or three'? "Two to three"?

Two or three.

Is there any difference in meaning of these sentences?

 

[GoesStation]

Two or three.

Is there any difference in meaning of these sentences?

Yes. A dictionary will help you discover the differences between shout or call (which are near synonyms) and speak. The words someone and somebody are synonyms meaning a person. This obviously does not mean the same thing as two or three people.

 

[tedmc]

"Speak his name" sounds strange to me.

 

[GoesStation]

Yes. Say his name would be natural.

 

[tufguy]

Yes. Say his name would be natural.

I heard it in the movie "Harry potter". "We do not speak his name" so is it incorrect?

 

[emsr2d2]

It's not incorrect. It means exactly the same as "We do not say his name". It's simply a particular style that the writer chose to use.

 

[GoesStation]

I heard it in the movie "Harry potter". "We do not speak his name" so is it incorrect?

The screenwriter chose the unusual style for dramatic effect.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Harry Potter"

Note the correct capitalisation above. There were two reasons you should have known to do this:

1. It's the title of a book/film and we have told you many times to capitalise all the main words in titles.
2. It's the name of a person (first name and surname), both of which must be capitalised even when they're not a book/film title.

 

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