3 ways to get what you want in English: orders, requests & suggestions

Learn three ways to get people to do what you want in English.
In this lesson we contrast orders, requests and suggestions with the help of our special guest: Super Agent Awesome.
At it's heart, this is a lesson in English pragmatics and in particular, directives. We compare the force that typically goes with structures like 'Do it', 'Could you do it?' and 'Why don't you do it?' .
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Hello. Thanks for the video. However, you should have mentioned that "will" and "would" are also used to make requests.

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1) Orders/ Command : Give me ... . Do it / something . Take ... away . ...etc.
2) Request : Could you pass the ... ? , Could you .. somewhere else ?
3) Suggestions : Why don't you ... ?

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"Super Agent" is a term that might be applied to a very successful and proficient spy like James Bond.

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