Practice making gentle recommendations
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| Do you know how to make gentle requests and suggestions in English? |
| Welcome to Three Step English Practice by EnglishClass101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to make gentle requests and suggestions in English. |
| Let’s look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| As you are aware, I’m a program director now, and my office has gotten a bit disorganized. I could really use a personal assistant, and I wondered if you had anyone to recommend. |
| Hmm, I’m not sure off the top of my head, but I’ll ask around. |
| We often soften a request by moving it into an indirect question: |
| I wondered / I wanted to know + if + clause (past form). |
| The past form (wondered, could, had) does not show past time here—it simply makes the request more polite and less direct. |
| Let’s practice with this grammar more in this lesson. |
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