Starting requests with please

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you're

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asking for things what we can do is we

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can put please as the first word of the

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sentence please can I have please can I

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have okay please can I have the pizza or

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please may I have please may I have is

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even more polite than please can I have

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please may I have the lasagna please may

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I have the lasagna as I said earlier

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instead of give we can use the word pass

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because give is a very direct word we

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can say pass it it's much softer it's

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much more gentle than give so instead of

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saying can you give me the salt please

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we say could you pass me the salt please

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could you pass me the salt please

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now a lot of these expressions I'm using

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examples in a restaurant where obviously

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you're asking for something and you have

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to be polite but this is also true when

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you're with family or friends

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we still don't want to be direct because

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it's still rude and we want to avoid

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being rude even with your parents if I

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said to my mother give me that pen she

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would be surprised at how rude I was

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being so what I would probably say is

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this plasma not pen will you pass me

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that pen