REQUESTING HELP: HOW DO YOU...?

Welcome back to the Daily Vitamin, everyone. I hope you are doing well.  

Yesterday we saw that we can use the modal verbs CAN and COULD to request help in a polite way. Today we will look at some other common words that are used when we ask for help.

HOW DO YOU verb
When we want someone to explain a process, we use the question word HOW verb in the present simple.

For example: How do you do this? 

Notice that in this example the subject pronoun you refers to everybody or anybody in general. It does not only refer to the person who receives the request for help.

Example 1: Excuse me. How do you turn on this machine?

Example 2: Pardon me. How do you fill out these documents?

Tomorrow we will finish the week by combining the modal verbs CAN and COULD with the question word HOW.

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