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Are these sentences grammatically correct?

1) May I seat myself? (Is it exactly same as 'May I sit down?')

2)Would you mind letting me come in?

3)Could I borrow your pen?

4)May I go to cloakroom?

5)I have got my lesson by heart.

6)Could I drink some water from my water bottle?

7)What slot is it?

8) I am boning up for the test.

9) The teacher verbally assesses the lesson daily.

10) May I go to drink water from water cooler?

11) We are dismissed early on Fridays.

12) I recapitulate the lesson before taking the test.

13) We have concluded our course.

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1. You should say: "May I sit down?" "May I seat myself?" is grammatical, but unusual and rude-sounding.

2. You should say: "May I come in?" "Would you mind letting me come in?" is grammatical, but rude-sounding.

3. You should say: "May I borrow your pen, please?" Many people in the US don't like lending their pen (people don't return them, or stick them in their mouth, or take a long time using it, or damage them, or walk off with them, or assume you're giving it to them, and some people have expensive ones, like a MontBlanc), so this is an imposition, and you should be as polite as possible. "Could I borrow your pen?" is not polite enough.

4. In the US today, the word "cloakroom" is rarely heard - I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I don't know what it means. The sentence is okay, but people won't know what you're talking about.

5. You should say something like: "I've got the lesson memorized." "I have got my lesson by heart." is grammatical, but very old-fashioned-sounding.

6. This is okay, but why would you ask something like this? This is usually not something you have to ask permission to do.

7. This is grammatical, but unusual. I can't thing of a situation where this would be used?

8. This would be okay with "I'm." But the phrase "boning up" is a little dated. You'd more likely hear: "I'm cramming/studying/preparing for the test."

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9. This is apparently grammatical, but difficult to understand. What does "verbally assess the lesson" mean? I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I don't know what it means.

10. This would be okay with the word "the" added before "water cooler."

11. This is okay.

12. This is apparently grammatical, but difficult to understand. What does "recapitulate the lesson" mean? I don't know what it means.

13. This is okay. Note that this would be said only at the end of the hour, on the last day of class. These would be the last words that the teacher says in this course.

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