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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Teachers.
Suppose you are sharing a table with a stranger at a restaurant, and you want to ask the stranger to pass the salt, after saying 'Excuse me,' can you use the following expressions? Or are they impolite?
Do you wanna pass
the salt?
Would you wanna (pass) the salt?
Why don't you pass the salt?
I've been wondering about this for a quite awhile now. Hope you teachers can clear it up for me. Thank you.
Grammar
Are they impolite?
Teachers.
Suppose you are sharing a table with a stranger at a restaurant, and you want to ask the stranger to pass the salt, after saying 'Excuse me,' can you use the following expressions? Or are they impolite?
Do you wanna pass
the salt?Would you wanna (pass) the salt?
Why don't you pass
the salt?I've been wondering about this for a quite awhile now. Hope you teachers can clear it up for me. Thank you.
Top answer
Hi Anon, Those are all rude - the third one extremely so. It sounds like the person should have known what you were thinking and has refused to do so. Excuse me, could you please pass me the salt?
- Hi Anon, Those are all rude - the third one extremely so.
- It sounds like the person should have known what you were thinking and has refused to do so.
- Excuse me, could you please pass me the salt?
- Thanks.
- Excuse me, could you pass the salt, please?
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Hi Anon,
Those are all rude - the third one extremely so. It sounds like the person should have known what you were thinking and has refused to do so.
Excuse me, could you please pass me the salt? Thanks.
Excuse me, could you pass the salt, please? Thank you.
Those are about your only choices. You can move the "please" around, you can leave in or o
Those are all rude - the third one extremely so. It sounds like the person should have known what you were thinking and has refused to do so.
Excuse me, could you please pass me the salt? Thanks.
Excuse me, could you pass the salt, please? Thank you.
Those are about your only choices. You can move the "please" around, you can leave in or o
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Grammar GeekHi Anon,
Those are all rude - the third one extremely so. It sounds like the person should have known what you were thinking and has refused to do so.
Excuse me, could you please pass me the salt? Thanks.
Excuse me, could you pass the salt, please? Thank you.
Those are about your only choices. You can move the
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