# How do the "query" and "suggest" blocks relate in a suggestion request?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 8, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685 "2020-11-08T16:02:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Timothy\_Wall](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Timothy_Wall)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685/1 "2020-11-08T16:02:30Z")
If I'm doing a suggestion request like below, how do the "query" and "suggest" blocks relate to one another?
```auto
POST /_search
{
"query": {...},
"suggest": {...},
}
```
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### Author:  [@wangqinghuan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wangqinghuan)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685/2 "2020-11-08T17:01:11Z")
[Context-suggester](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters.html#context-suggester) maybe what you are looking for.
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### Author:  [@Timothy\_Wall](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Timothy_Wall)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685/3 "2020-11-08T19:09:50Z")
I'm asking what do the two clauses have to do with one another. As far as I can tell, each simply returns its own results, no different than an msearch batch of queries.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-the-query-and-suggest-blocks-relate-in-a-suggestion-request/254685/4 "2020-12-06T19:09:53Z")
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