Sentence help for informal use

1. Download for me last year’s balance sheet from the Cloud.
or
2. Download the balance sheet for last year from the Cloud.

(Assuming all historic documents are stored in the Cloud, it may not be necessary to specify the source.)
When you are providing full details, I don’t think there would be a difference between formal and informal.

DebarghyaIf I want to tell my friend to download ...

Here's one way to do it:

Could you please download last year's balance sheet (from your server) for me?

CJ

CalifJimCould you please download last year's balance sheet (from your server) for me?

Of course, this would not be 'telling your friend' but 'asking your friend'...

But it's more "friendly" than an imperative.

Anyway, pragmatically, to my ear it's telling, just as "Could you pass the s

CalifJim"Could you pass the salt?"

How, grammatically, does one justify the question mark in a pragmatic imperative? Wouldn't you be better to say, "Pass the salt please."

wilpeterHow, grammatically, does one justify the question mark in a pragmatic imperative? Wouldn't you be better to say, "Pass the salt please."

???

There's syntax (grammar), semantics (meaning), and pragmatics (usage).

The question mark comes from the syntactic component of language. The subject-verb inversion (could you, not you

Thanks for the lesson, CalifJim, and for your patience. I've been away from grammar too long.