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TomJ Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Q8: 'please have a seat', 'please have the seat', 'please be seated', 'please sit down'
Hello dear teachers,
Do all of these give the same meaning, please? I'm asking the question to you, because I've heard all of them when somebody asks another person to sit on something, for eg, usually on a chair.
- Please have a seat.
- Please have the seat.
- Please sit down.
- Please be seated. (I usually heard it when I was at school. When our teacher would enter the class-room, we all would leave our seats and stand up to show honour for her. And at that moment, she used to say 'Please be seated'.)
... And I've also heard 'Please pull a chair' sometimes. Is it also a way of asking somebody to have a seat? Is it informal?
At a coffee shop, I once heard a guy saying to a customer 'you're welcome, sir. Please have a seat of your preference'. Does it mean that the guy was saying 'please sit wherever you like or wish to sit'?
Thank you all.
Do all of these give the same meaning, please? I'm asking the question to you, because I've heard all of them when somebody asks another person to sit on something, for eg, usually on a chair.
- Please have a seat.
- Please have the seat.
- Please sit down.
- Please be seated. (I usually heard it when I was at school. When our teacher would enter the class-room, we all would leave our seats and stand up to show honour for her. And at that moment, she used to say 'Please be seated'.)
... And I've also heard 'Please pull a chair' sometimes. Is it also a way of asking somebody to have a seat? Is it informal?
At a coffee shop, I once heard a guy saying to a customer 'you're welcome, sir. Please have a seat of your preference'. Does it mean that the guy was saying 'please sit wherever you like or wish to sit'?
Thank you all.
Top answer
Please have a seat. -- This is a common polite expression. Please have the seat.
- Please have a seat.
- -- This is a common polite expression.
- Please have the seat.
- -- Normally unnatural in the intended sense.
- Please sit down.
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Please have a seat. -- This is a common polite expression.
Please have the seat. -- Normally unnatural in the intended sense.
Please sit down. -- Common expression; feels slightly more direct than the first one.
Please be seated. -- Expression used when speaking formally to a group of people.
Pull a chair -- Not natural for me; the expression I k
Please have the seat. -- Normally unnatural in the intended sense.
Please sit down. -- Common expression; feels slightly more direct than the first one.
Please be seated. -- Expression used when speaking formally to a group of people.
Pull a chair -- Not natural for me; the expression I k
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Thank you, GPY, for your reply. So, I shouldn't say 'please have a seat of your preference', instead, I should say 'please sit (down) wherever you like to or wherever you wish to'?
One more thing... What if there are only two chairs availabe in a room, and one of them is already reserved by somebody; somebody is already sitting on it, so in a situation like this, woul
One more thing... What if there are only two chairs availabe in a room, and one of them is already reserved by somebody; somebody is already sitting on it, so in a situation like this, woul
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TomJThank you, GPY, for your reply. So, I shouldn't say 'please have a seat of your preference', instead, I should say 'please sit (down) wherever you like to or wherever you wish to'?Please sit (down) wherever you like.
Please sit (down) anywhere (you like).
TomJOne more thing... What if there are only two chair
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