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Can you hand me the salt, please?

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Sentence

Narrator

Can you hand me the salt, please?

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Making a Request

Could you please pass me the salt?

Polite Request

Would you mind handing me the salt?

Informal Request

Pass the salt, please.

Urgent Request

Salt, please! I need it now.

Rephrased versions

Formal

Please be so kind as to pass me the salt.

Informal

Salt?

Simpler English

Give me the salt, please.

Phrases to learn

hand me

To give something to someone by hand.

Can you...

A polite way to ask for something.