Music by SergePavkinMusic from Pixabay

Adaptation of “Targeting Homework Year 1”

【句子】

*statement

*question (closed/open)

*request

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/requests

【比較】

*What is the capital of Taiwan?

*Can I have the salt?

【Please】

*Would you shut the window, please? (Longman Dictionary)

*Would someone please tell me what is going on? (Longman Dictionary)

*Will you please hurry up with my bill? (Sato, 2008: 1265)

Sato, S. (2008). Use of “Please” in American and New Zealand English. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(7), 1249–1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007.09.001

【Food for thought】

*Will you two please stop fighting! (Longman Dictionary)