3 ways to get what you want in English: orders, requests suggestions

Learn three ways to get people to do what you want in English. In this lesson we contrast orders, requests and suggestions with the help of our special guest: Super Agent Awesome. At it s heart, this is a lesson in English pragmatics and in particular, directives. We compare the force that typically goes with structures like Do it, Could you do it and Why don t you do it .