Your Colleague Has Just Said to You, "Can You Double-Check

Multiple Choice

Your colleague has just said to you, "can you double-check these numbers before I send them upstairs?" If you were to paraphrase what you just heard by saying, "you sound worried that the budget numbers don't seem correct," you might be trying to determine the ________.

A) possibility that the request could be offensive
B) hidden meaning of the message
C) ultimate intention of the message
D) emotional content of the message
E) literal content of the message