Can I help you or could I help you?

The technically correct form is “May I help you?”, but in England “Can I help you?” is more usual. “Can I help you?” literally means ‘do I have the ability to help you?” but it is understood in normal conversation to mean, “May I help you?” “Could I help you?” means the same.

Could you please vs Can you please?

We also use ‘could’ to ask permission; it is more polite or formal than ‘can’. Changing the word order to “could you please” is no more or less polite – it’s a matter of style. whether requests starting with “Please can/could you…” render the same degree of politeness as those that start with “Could you please…”.

Could help me meaning?

And could you help me is asking if the person is able to help to. On a side note, “Can” can also be used as it is more casual but holds the same meaning as “could”. See a translation. 3 likes.

What is the difference between can you and could you?

Originally Answered: What is the difference between can you and could you? ‘Can you’ is used to question the ability of the person you are directing this statement at, while ‘could you’ is a request irrespective of whether the person possesses the ability to do what is being asked of him/her.

Can I and could I?

“Can I” is best for semi-formal situations. “Could I” is best for semi-formal situations.

Can you or could you polite?

To answer the question: “could” definitely sounds slightly more polite than “can” to a native speaker since it is less direct and more deferential as a result. “Could” is a form of “can”, so both are technically asking “are you able to…”. This is not the difference between the two.

How do you reply to Can you help me?

Formal ways – At work, it is always better to reply formally.

1. Welcome: is a formal way of saying you are ready to help someone.
2. Certainly: a very affirmative reply.
3. Of course: another way of saying certainly.
4. That’s absolutely fine: it means you are okay with helping someone.
5. It is nothing: that means it is a small task.

Can someone help me or can anyone help me?

When you wish somebody to help you, you should say ‘can somebody help me’.

Can vs could in a question?

Can, like could and would, is used to ask a polite question, but can is only used to ask permission to do or say something (“Can I borrow your car?” “Can I get you something to drink?”). Could is the past tense of can, but it also has uses apart from that–and that is where the confusion lies.

Would U or could u?

‘Could You’ imply that somebody has the ability to do something. ‘Could’ can also be termed as Can in the grammar but have a distinct meaning. ‘Could’ is used in case if someone is requesting to do something. ‘Would You’ is similar to ‘Could You’, but ‘Would You’ is an appropriate way of asking something to someone.