How to use please in a sentence. Please and thank you are usually associated with politeness We use them a lot in english You say please when you are politely asking or inviting someone to do something. To give satisfaction or pleasure Waiters who try hard to please
To have the will or desire Sit down, if you please. (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging Will you please turn the radio off To act to the pleasure or satisfaction of To be the pleasure or will of
To like, wish, or feel inclined Please is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque of the french s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. See examples of please used in a sentence. Used to ask for something in a polite way Used to show that a request is serious or important Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you[1][2] which is a calque of french s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray
If it please you is a present subjunctive form, but most current uses of please are not parsed that way.
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