Can or could you please?
Originally Answered: “Can you please” or “Could you please” — which is correct? “Could” is the polite form of “can”—so both are correct, but we use them in different situations. We use “can” when we are telling someone to do something. We use “could” when we are making a request.
Can you and could you difference?
Originally Answered: What is the difference between can you and could you? ‘Can you’ is used to question the ability of the person you are directing this statement at, while ‘could you’ is a request irrespective of whether the person possesses the ability to do what is being asked of him/her.
Would you Vs could you?
‘Could You’ is considered to be an informal way of asking something, contrary, ‘Would You’ is a formal way of requesting someone to do something.
Could VS would polite?
How to remember the difference. When it comes to requests, we can use both could and would, but could is more formal and polite than would. While making polite requests, could is used with suggestions, as it indicates a possibility. On the contrary, would is used with offers or invites, because it is more usual.
Have you sent or have you send?
“Have you sent” is correct as sent is the v3 of send.
WHEN TO USE sent and send in a sentence?
Send is present and future tense eg I will send you the letters or please send me the letters. While sent is past tense, eg I received the letters you sent yesterday. e.g – I asked my mother to send me some money. She sent it yesterday.
Could uses and examples?
We use could to show that something is possible, but not certain:
- They could come by car. (= Maybe they will come by car.)
- It can be very cold here in winter.
- That can’t be true.
- It’s ten o’clock.
- It could be very cold there in winter.
- They know the way here.
- She can speak several languages.
- I can see you.
Could vs Can polite?
‘Can’ is used when there is nothing that would stop the thing from happening. When asking someone to do something, either word can be used, but ‘could’ is considered to be more polite.