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Vocabulary: requesting and granting - English lesson
There are "personal requests", professional demands, administrative queries or applications ( they are the most painful and difficult ones ...) and many others too...
It is, therefore, necessary to adapt our vocabulary to the different circumstances! I hope this lesson will help!
To fill in an application form To beseech/ to beg
There are so many situations in which we must "ask", "request" or even beg...
To ask for something/ To ask someone to do something |
To call for something |
To request something To make a request for something |
To apply for something |
An application |
To beg somebody to do something To entreat somebody to do something To beseech somebody to do something |
To implore somebody to do something To plead with somebody to do something |
To solicit something from somebody To seek something from somebody |
A petition for/ against |
An appeal to somebody for something |
To make a request To implore
... and if you're lucky, you may get what you wanted (or not!)...
To grant somebody something |
To accede to somebody's wishes |
To have mercy on |
Merciful |
To allow something/ somebody to do something |
To give permission to do something |
To permit something/ somebody to do something |
To licence somebody to do something |
To forbid somebody to do something |
To prohibit/ to ban (administration) |
To have mercy on...
- May I have your authority to do so?
- You have my permission to...
- For God's sake!
- For Heaven's sake/ for pity's sake...
- Could I...? / May I...?
- Would you object if... ?
- To be taken for granted: to be considered innately true, real, or correct; to be anticipated as always being available or at hand. ...
To take stg/ sb for granted
I hope this will help and your wishes will be satisfied! Now, you must be ready for the test! Go for it!

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