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Vocabulary: requesting and granting

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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1. You shouldn’t take her friendship . You have to deserve every favour she does to you.

2. I’d really you didn’t help her at all as you had promised.

3. 'Should I remind you that smoking is totally in all public places?'

4. 'Of course, I’ve speak again and again, but he insists on keeping quiet.'

5. 'I hope I’ll be stay in my room during your friends’ visit. They’re much too noisy for me.'

6. 'It’s the last moment to an internship in this firm. You should send your documents today.'

7. 'Your parents strictly to leave your home after dinner.'

8. 'But you’ll be on their computer for as long as you want.'

9. After filling in many forms and asking for permissions, he was the possibility to stay in the country till the end of the year.

10. Though I’ve tidy up his room repeatedly, he hasn’t done it yet.

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