QUESTION / REQUEST / REQUIREMENT -- all nouns.
Not "Ask". "Ask" is a verb.
Not "Ask". "Ask" is a verb.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Descriptivism is overwhelmingly the mainstream view or practice of language scholars.
ask noun [ C usually singular ] uk/ɑːsk/ us /æsk/ ask noun [C usually singular] (REQUEST) the act of asking someone to do something or give you something such as money: The message came with "an ask", meaning users were asked to do something upon receiving it. make the ask He was an aggressive fundraiser who worked the phones fanatically and had no hesitation about making the ask.