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PreciousJones Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

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I'm ordering food.

Can I say:

Could I use my credit card. Or should it be:

Can I use my credit card.

This is if I want to be polite.
  

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Either would be fine. " would also be perfectly acceptable.

  • Either would be fine.
  • " would also be perfectly acceptable.
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Either would be fine. It would be slightly more common in this situation to hear "can I...," - however - "could I..." would also be perfectly acceptable.
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Hi,

I usually ask

Do you take credit cards?

or

Is a credit card OK?

But in many cases, I just hand them my card. If they don't want

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