{"id":73246,"date":"2020-03-22T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73246"},"modified":"2020-03-22T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:57:50","slug":"saying-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/saying-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use\u00a0<b>please\u00a0<\/b>to make a request more polite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you move a bit, please?<\/li>\n<li>Could you open the window, please?<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Would you like some help?\u2019 \u2018Yes, please.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Please do\u00a0<\/b>is a rather formal answer to a request for permission.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Do you mind if I open the window?\u2019 \u2018Please do.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Situations where please is not used<\/h5>\n<p>We do not use\u00a0<b>please\u00a0<\/b>to ask people what they have said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I have got a bit of a headache.\u2019 \u2018I beg your pardon?\u2019 (NOT \u2026 Please?)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018John is on the phone.\u2019 \u2018Sorry?\u2019 (NOT \u2026Please?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Please\u00a0<\/b>is not used as an answer to\u00a0<b>Thank you.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Thanks a lot.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s OK.\u2019 (NOT \u2026 \u2018Please.\u2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use\u00a0please\u00a0to make a request more polite. Would you move a bit, please? Could you open the window, please? \u2018Would you like some help?\u2019 \u2018Yes, please.\u2019 Please do\u00a0is a rather formal answer to a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2103,2104,2105],"class_list":["post-73246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-please","tag-using-please","tag-when-to-use-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73247,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions\/73247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}