A great post about natural, polite requests.
Often people feel at a loss when being
out and about*
in London they need to ask something to the person next to them or a passer-by. Some students feel they can’t find the right words. Today’s post is about the kind of questions you might need to ask strangers when going around the city. The questions I came up with are deliberately more complex than the ones you’d usually learn at school and mostly used by
British people
.
‘To be out and about’ means to be out doing stuff, going to places etc
CAN I SQUEEZE IN?
Context: you’re on the bus and you’ve just seen a spare seat but someone is sitting on the aisle seat. You could ask this person ‘Sorry, can I sit there?’ or ‘Sorry, can I squeeze in?’.
The idea behind the use of the verb ‘squeeze in’ is that you know that…
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