Please wait for your turn to speak.

Meaning: This means to be patient and not talk until it is your chance to do so. It's like saying, Be quiet until it is your time to talk.

Choice of Words: Wait means to stay in one place until something happens. Turn means the time when it is your opportunity to do something. Speak means to say words aloud.

Alternative Expressions

Hold on, it's not your turn yet.

Meaning: This means to ask someone to wait and not speak because it's not their turn yet. It's like saying, Please be patient and wait until it's your time to talk.

Choice of Words: Hold means to keep something in your hand or possession. On means to continue doing something. Yet means not yet or until a certain time. Turn means the time or opportunity for a person to do or say something. When you put them together, "Hold on, it's not your turn yet" means asking someone to wait and not speak because it's not their turn yet.

Excuse me, but you'll have to wait to speak.

Meaning: This means to ask someone to be patient and wait until it's their turn to talk. It's like saying, Please be patient and wait until it's your time to talk.

Choice of Words: Excuse means to ask for forgiveness or permission. Me refers to the speaker. But means however or on the other hand. You'll is a contraction of the words "you" and "will." Have means to possess or own something. To indicates the purpose or direction of an action. Wait means to stay in one place until something happens. Speak means to talk or say something. When you put them together, "Excuse me, but you'll have to wait to speak" means asking someone to be patient and wait until it's their turn to talk.

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