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Making requests and giving instructions
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Activity 4.1
Write these requests and offers more polite. Use the next expressions.
Expression
Polite sentence
1
Give me a glass of water.
2
Help me Fnd my keys!
3
Come over for dinner tonight!
4
Give me your dictionary.
5
Can I help you with this
exercise?
6
Stop shouting!
7
Wash the dishes.
8
Can you give this book to my
teacher?
9
Go to the house and bring
me my wallet.
10 Don’t drive so fast.
Check your answers in the Answer Key.
May
is a modal auxiliary verb.
You use may when you are not sure about something.
Example:
My grandfather may be coming to see us tomorrow.
You use may to make polite requests.
Example:
May I borrow your book?
The main verb is always in inFnitive without “to”.
Form
Subject
Auxiliary verb
Main verb
Complement
AfFrmative
I, you, he, she,
we, you, they
may
visit
my, your, his,
her, our, their
grandfather.
Negative
I, you, he, she,
we, you, they
may not
visit
my, your, his,
her, our, their
grandfather.
Form
Auxiliary verb
Subject
Main verb
Complement
Interrogative
May
I, you, he, she,
we, you, they
visit
my, your, his,
her, our, their
grandfather.
Reference took from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/verbs/modal-verbs/may-
might-may-have-and-might-have read on july 10th, 2014.