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Bookmark or Share- "may you" or "can you"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange"May" is typically used for requests, but I will definitely side with WindowsDude7 right above! "Could" is definitely your best shot if you want to express politeness :) "Could" is definitely your best shot if you want to express politeness :)
- Is it correct to say "I kindly request you to..."?The fancy formal "subjunctive" version has not outpaced the older version in UK usage the way it has in American use. This may be because UK use of the "mandative subjunctive" (also known as the uninflected bare infinitive or the "modally marked" form) is quite a bit less common than the US use of that type of construction. Politesse
- Correct use of lie or lay in the following contextYou may or may not be proficient in those technologies still, and you may or may not have subsequently extended your proficiency to other areas, but the emphasis here is on your strengths at that time, with no strong indication of what your current strengths are: I based my final year project around web technologies where my strengths [then] lay.
- "As on 16 May" vs. "as of 16 May" — which is correct?As of May 16 indicates the start of something; from that time on, while as on May 16 is completely different. As in as on May 16 means such as; like and is used for comparison. As of May 16, 2012 cigarettes are banned in this country. As on May 16, he again failed to attend the conference. Back to your specific example.
- Punctuation for the phrase "including but not limited to"Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
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