Offering Help and Polite Request

You want a classmate to give you a ride home after class.

• Would you mind giving me a ride home?

• Could you gave me a ride?

• Is it OK if I give you a ride?

You want to use a friend's cell phone.

• Do you mind if I use your cellphone?

• Give me your cellphone

• Could you sell me your cellphone?

You want to borrow a friend's car for the weekend

• I was wondering if I can borrow your car for the weekend.

• I was wondering if I could borrow your car for the weekend.

• I was wondering if you could borrow your car for the weekend.

________________if I smoke in here?

• Do you mind

• Can

• Could

• Would you mind

_____________________ if I open the window?

• Do you mind

• May

• Could

• Would you mind If

Mrs. Redding, _____________ lend me two hundred dollars till next week, please?

• can't you

• could you

• do you mind

• would you mind

Betty, ______________ help me with this grammar exercise, please? (Informal request)

• can you

• can't you

• won't you

• do you mind

____________you open the window, please? It's hot in here. (Polite request)

• could
• couldn't
• won't
• wouldn't

Charlotte, ______________ send me the document by email?

• would you please
• you could
• would please you

Get the menu?

• Polite Request

• Not so polite request