[General] It's time to release answer.

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Silverobama

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Hi.

A friend of mine uses daily Q&A to help us to learn English. She asks the question every afternoon and usually gives the answer in the evening. But yesterday almost all of us have answered the question and we wanted to know the answer. Someone said to her "It's time to release answer".

I wonder if the sentence is natural.
 

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I would say: It's time to give us the answer.
 

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Hi.

A friend of mine uses a daily Q&A to help us to learn English. She asks [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] a question every afternoon and usually gives the answer in the evening. But yesterday almost all of us [STRIKE]have[/STRIKE] answered the question quite quickly and we wanted to know the answer. Someone said to her "It's time to release answer".

I wonder if their sentence is natural.

See above.
 

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I don't see your change of my sentence "It's time to release answer". Do you mean it's okay?
No. You'd need an article to make that grammatical. Ems left it alone because she was correcting the text in your question. The corrected text still has to ask whether the quote is right or wrong.
 

emsr2d2

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As GS said, I left it alone because I was correcting the rest of your text. Your sentence was not grammatical.

It's time to release the answer. (Grammatical but not very natural.)
It's time to tell us the answer.
It's time to give us the answer.
 
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