Simple Requests

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Question formats

Multiple choice

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Read the complete context. Check both the meaning and the grammar, including word forms, collocations and links between sentences.

1. Question 1 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You ask someone to open a window.

   1. Can you to open the window?
   2. Can you open the window, please?
   3. Please opening window.
   4. Please open the window.
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   Answer

   Can you open the window, please?; Please open the window.

   Can takes a base verb; please can introduce an imperative.

2. Question 2 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You request a pen.

   1. A pen, please.
   2. Can I has a pen?
   3. A please pen have.
   4. Can I have a pen, please?
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   Answer

   A pen, please.; Can I have a pen, please?

   Both correct options are conventional requests for an object.

3. Question 3 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You ask someone to wait.

   1. Can you wait here, please?
   2. Can you waiting here?
   3. Please waits here.
   4. Please wait here.
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   Answer

   Can you wait here, please?; Please wait here.

   An imperative and can plus base verb make suitable requests.

4. Question 4 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You request a glass of water.

   1. Can I having some water?
   2. Can I have some water, please?
   3. I would likes water.
   4. I'd like a glass of water, please.
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   Answer

   Can I have some water, please?; I'd like a glass of water, please.

   Would like and can I have both introduce a request.

5. Question 5 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You need help with a bag.

   1. Help I please bag.
   2. Please help me with this bag.
   3. Can you helps me?
   4. Can you help me, please?
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   Answer

   Please help me with this bag.; Can you help me, please?

   Help takes the object pronoun me.

6. Question 6 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You ask a classmate to repeat a word.

   1. Please say that word again.
   2. Can you say that word again, please?
   3. Can you saying that word?
   4. Please says again word.
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   Answer

   Please say that word again.; Can you say that word again, please?

   Say that word again asks for repetition with a base verb.

7. Question 7 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You request permission to sit.

   1. May I sitting here?
   2. Can I to sit here?
   3. May I sit here?
   4. Can I sit here?
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   Answer

   May I sit here?; Can I sit here?

   Can and may both take sit without to.

What to review next

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