Three Step English for Upper Intermediate Learners - Practice #1 - Making Gentle Requests and Suggestions - Recap

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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0:00.0	Do you know how to make gentle requests and suggestions in English?
0:05.0	Welcome to three-step English practice by English Class 101.com.
0:10.0	In this lesson, you will practice how to make gentle requests and suggestions in English.
0:16.0	Let's look at the main dialogue.
0:20.0	Two people are having a conversation.
0:22.6	As you are aware, I'm a program director now, and my office has gotten a bit disorganized.
0:29.6	I could really use a personal assistant, and I wondered if you had anyone to recommend.
0:35.6	Hmm, I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I'll ask around.
0:41.3	We often soften a request by moving it into an indirect question.
0:45.3	I wondered.
0:47.3	I wanted to know.
0:48.3	Plus if, plus clause, past form.
0:52.3	The past form wondered, could, had, does not show past time here.
0:58.0	It simply makes the request more polite and less direct.
1:02.0	Let's practice with this grammar more in this lesson.

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