please
part of speech
exclamation and adverb (please — a polite word); verb (please, pleases, pleased, pleasing); adjectives pleased, pleasant
meaning for a pupil
1) Please is the polite word you add when you ask for something: Can I have some water, please? tree →
2) «Yes, please» is a polite way to accept something. tree →
3) To please someone means to make them happy or satisfied. tree →
4) «As you please» or «whatever you please» means whatever you want. tree →
sense in the lessons
In manners lessons «please» and «thank you» are called the magic words: say please when you ask, thank you when you get. Saying please does not mean you must get what you ask for. In stories a character who begs says «please, please». Being «pleased» means being happy about something. Phrases: yes please, please and thank you, please yourself, hard to please, pleased to meet you.
examples
- Can I have a glass of water, please? tree →
- «Would you like some cake?» «Yes, please!» tree →
- Please close the door. tree →
- Please be quiet in the library. tree →
- She tried hard to please her teacher. tree →
- I'm pleased with my test result. tree →
- Pleased to meet you! tree →
- My cat is hard to please; she only likes one kind of food. tree →
- "Please let me go," he pleaded. tree →
note
«Please» can go at the start («Please sit down») or end («Sit down, please»), with a comma before it at the end. «Pleased» (feeling happy), «pleasant» (nice), «pleasure» (enjoyment) come from the same word. Saying «please» is polite, but someone who uses polite words can still be asking for something unsafe; you can still say no.
In the corpora
- Being honest about yourself also means not saying things that aren't true to please people.
- Don't ever refer to it again, please.»
- Toad has changed his mind … Please understand that this is final.»
- Saying please turns an order into a polite request.
- Please and thank you matter at home with your family, not only outside.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «please» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.