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Bookmark or Share- When do I use a question mark with "Could you [please]A sentence like Could you please pass me the pepper shaker is not really a question. Should I use a question mark or a period to end this sentence? What about: Could you let me know when the
- pronouns - Difference between "Let us go" and "Let we go"? - English ..."Let we go" or "let we us go" = Early Modern English (the subject is "we") Cf. Late Modern English's "let us go", in which the subject is "you" which is not written because it is already understood. "Let's go" = Late Modern English (the subject is "we") Cf. other West Germanic languages: Laat we (ons) gaan (Dutch); Lassen wir uns gehen (German)
- How to ask about one's availability? "free/available/not busy"?It is far more conventional to say "let me know when you are busy" than "let me know when you are not busy". The negative is considered redundant, and they are understood to mean the same thing, i.e. they are both enquiring about availability. Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry.
- Is "please let me know if otherwise" grammatical?"please let me know if otherwise" The context for it is when I am sending an email to the boss saying: I am gonna do this and that, please let me know if otherwise. What I am trying to say is "please let me know if you disagree with my approach," etc.
- phrase requests - Other words to replace "let's"? - English Language ...Thus you don't need to always change each Let's/Let us with a "replacement" however we will presume you do, so we could replace let us with •We want to see x and y. We shall start with x. •Now, we can see the relationship between z and w. Using we on occasion instead of us will avoid the sense of repetition
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