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Could I say “Could you please tell me does it work for you” or it is grammatically incorrect?
Could I say “Could you please tell me does it work for you” or it is grammatically incorrect?
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It's incorrect.
Could you please tell me if it works for you?
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@prog112 thanks!
All the questions with “could/would you please tell/ask/ so on” should be followed by if?
All the questions with “could/would you please tell/ask/ so on” should be followed by if?
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@sakura-temari You can also use "whether (or not)".
Notice that I dropped the "does" auxiliary verb too and reversed the sentence order back to the regular one. This is what we call in English an embedded question.
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