Can I/ I can
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Message from lonlyspartakos posted on 05-09-2014 at 12:14:40 (D | E | F)
Hello,
Could you please tell where.......... buy a Christmas tree?
- Can
- Can i
- Could
- I can
me and my friends and I had a very long argument about whether the correct answer " Can i " or " I can " ...
can someone help me, to know which one is grammatically right?
Thanks for any reply.
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Edited by lucile83 on 06-09-2014 07:42
You have to write I, not i (capital letter)
Message from lonlyspartakos posted on 05-09-2014 at 12:14:40 (D | E | F)
Hello,
Could you please tell where.......... buy a Christmas tree?
- Can
- Can i
- Could
- I can
can someone help me, to know which one is grammatically right?
Thanks for any reply.
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Edited by lucile83 on 06-09-2014 07:42
You have to write I, not i (capital letter)
Re: Can I/ I can from carlabice47, posted on 05-09-2014 at 12:33:29 (D | E)
Hello,
the inversion after a question is not correct but it's very usual nowadays:
Could you tell me..... (indirect question ) where I can buy ...
Could you tell me where I could buy ..... ( means that buying this is rather unusual ,which is not the case here.
Hope it'll help!!!
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Edited by lucile83 on 06-09-2014 07:45
Re: Can I/ I can from gerondif, posted on 05-09-2014 at 13:27:21 (D | E)
Hello,
Could you please tell where to buy a Christmas tree?
Could you please tell where I can buy a Christmas tree?
The question is in the indirect speech, therefore, no inversion is required.
Where can I buy a Christmas tree ?
I don't you where I can buy a Christmas tree.
Re: Can I/ I can from traviskidd, posted on 06-09-2014 at 02:22:58 (D | E)
hello,
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Re: Can I/ I can from clint01, posted on 07-09-2014 at 11:48:50 (D | E)
Hello Lonely,
When you want to ask a question using where, when, what and how and you insist on using 'Could you please tell me'
![](https://www.anglaisfacile.com/images/smileys/content.gif)
So 'Where do you live' changes to 'Could you please tell me (let me know) where you live?'.
But suppose you wanted to ask the question that follows:
Are you a Londoner?
Using 'Could you please tell me':
In yes or no questions,
we can say: 'Could you please tell me if(whether) you are a Londoner?'
Re: Can I/ I can from piggy899, posted on 08-09-2014 at 16:58:13 (D | E)
the coreect answer should be I can
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