1 to make someone feel happy or satisfied, or to give someone pleasure: --
They want £200, if you please, just to replace a couple of broken windows!
I shall go out with whoever I please.
She thinks she can just do whatever/as she pleases.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] It always pleases me to see a well-designed book!
He was always a good boy, very friendly and eager to please.
2 commonly used in order to make a request more polite, or, sometimes, to make it stronger or urgent: --
3 to make someone feel happy or satisfied, or to give someone pleasure: --
Conversely, nonlocals' use of please backfires because acting "proper" asser ts superiority in terms not locally condoned.
Please provide at least two contexts in which the child used each word.
In relation to the latter it is especially pleasing that basic word lists for languages representing four of these groups are included as an appendix.
If anyone knows where these materials are to be found, please let the author or this reviewer know.
It is pleasing to find articles from regional newspapers which present their material with the authority of local knowledge.
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each statement.
In initial position the accentual status of please is somewhat controversial.
In other words, husbands were not expected to simply dispose of their wives as they pleased.
