Teacher said it’s B, I think it’s C

*Would you [please] get me something to drink?* --> *Get me something to drink, would you?* *Will you [please] get me something to drink?* --> *Get me something to drink, will you?* *Can you [please] get me something to drink?* --> *Get me something to drink, can you?* The best answer is D as, like the first two examples above, it's just a less polite and more imperative rearrangement of a perfectly normal sentence. None of the other options result in grammatically and/or logically sound sentences if rearranged (except maybe "shouldn't" in some very specific situations that we can probably ignore). But as others have said, while D is technically fine, it's awkward. "Would you" or "will you" are both more natural ways to say this--though, again, this form would come across as somewhat impolite unless you were good friends with the person you're asking.

Is your teacher Yoda?

Who made this question? And why are they teaching english? What is this?

D is the best choice, but it sounds like you’re on Leave It to Beaver or some other 1950s show 😅

D is the only correct option, and even it is not good.

I think A, because with D it's start impolite, demanding and then you ask if their able to do this

The answers are all wrong, so are you and your teacher. It’s “won’t you.”

D is the most right, but as a native speaker, I wouldn’t say that. It sounds both awkward and rude. Instead I’d say “can you get me something to drink please?”

I've never heard anyone say any of these. Could you, would you, will you, are how you would ask something like this.

All of these sound terrible, but D is the least bad one.

It's time to get a new teacher. All of these options suck and your teacher thinks that the most incorrect one is correct.

Yes, the title is a typo, i meant to say D not C (as i’ve marked in the image)

all of these sound so unnatural. As a native speaker D is the best option

Ur teacher sucks

The polite and natural way to say it is "Can you please get me something to drink?". None of these really seem right to me.

Englishman here. Id say it's E) get me something to drink, would you? But of the options presented, I'd say D)

I could see B as someone hinting to another person that they want them to leave, and is kind of snide and rude, but none of these sound like natural English.

None of these are good English (at least not that I’ve ever heard). If the point of the question is to pick one where the modal verb and active verb “fit” together, then B & D would be natural if the last phrase was moved to the front, and A would be technically grammatically correct. The only related sentence I can imagine someone making with this word order would be “Get me something to drink, would you?” (maybe “could you”, though it’s a little more awkward) That would be a very informal way of making the request. If you say it jokingly/politely to someone you know well, it would come across as intimate and friendly — in any other context, it would be rude and off-putting. Not something I would ever say to a waiter, for example. You could also potentially negate it (“wouldn’t you?”), and people would understand, but that one’s even riskier, in my opinion. I have never in my life heard “shouldn’t you?” at the end of a sentence like this. Is there any more context for this question?

Either D or "won't you?"

It's D, but I would never personally say that. I would say, "May/Could I please have something to drink?" or "Could/would you get me something to drink?" (The first sentence is the more polite sounding of the two to me.)

As a native English speaker they all sound slightly off. Like someone started making a statement then thought they needed to change it to a question mid sentence. D is the closest but even then I would consider someone rude to ask for a drink in that manner. "Could you get me a drink, please?" Would be a much more polite way to ask.

None of the above. "Get me something to drink, will you?" The polite way to ask, instead of the related rude statement: "You will get me something to drink."

My Armenian grandmother, whose first language was NOT English, might have said A. "Don't you?" was her all-purpose tag question: "You're in sixth grade now, don't you?"

Get me something to drink: Do not you Should not you Have not you Can you Writing out the contraction in full may make it seem easier

All of these are bad. A is making a statement about "your" normal activities. The speaker is asserting that "you" make a habit of getting people drinks. I would never say it, because it's so weird, but that's the only way I can make sense of the grammar. B is fucking rude. Wow. It implies that "you" are obligated to get the speaker a drink. "You" getting the speaker a drink is the baseline expectation. That the speaker has to say this at all means "you" are failing in your duty. I can only envision this as a line said by a very entitled nobleman to an exceedingly overworked servant/slave. Don't say this to anyone, ever, unless you want to sound like the kind of person who would slap a waitress for forgetting to put lemon in their water. (Just to be clear: Everyone hates that kind of person.) C is unsure when the action is taking place. The first part is a command, implying that it hasn't happened yet. The second part is in the past tense, implying it *has* happened already. D is the closest to reasonable. "Can you?" implies that "you" might not be capable of getting me a drink. Depending on the situation and the speaker's tone, that might come across as condescending. The actual answer is, "Get me something to drink, ***will*** you?" This is a command softened by the transition into a question. It's still casual language, and as such, I'd recommend using it with family and friends rather than people in public (ex: waiters). "Get me something to drink, ***won't*** you?" is second place, but the addition of "not" makes it's more presumptuous than "will you." It's not as condescending as "can you," though.

What language are you learning? No native English speaker speaks like this in English lol

These are all wrong

D is the only correct answer but it still sounds unnatural. ‘Can you get me something to drink?’ would be a more normal way to say that.

Literally none of these. “Can/would you get me something to drink” is the correct answer.

they're all wrong in my opinion. if you were being posh, I'd you'd say 'could you' at the end, but yeah, nah. none really fit in my opinion

I'm a non native speaker. Why do they always pick the weirdest sentences to put them in exams?

I’d say: Can you get me something to drink

The question isn’t which one sounds most polite, it’s a question based on grammar. D is the only possible answer between the 4, it is present tense. Can you get me a drink? / get me a drink, can you?,

These are all wrong, although D is closest.  "Could you", at the start of the sentence is most natural.

... To me none of these are correct, they all sound wrong. It should be "will you" or "won't you".

Both of you are wrong. It's D. It's a kind of fixed expression. However, please don't use this with people you respect or have some distance in relationship with because this is quite a rude phrase. It's a bit more OK with friends, but even I wouldn't use it then.

They're all wrong, can you get me something to drink? Is correct. Haven't you got me something to drink? Would also be fine by changing the tense to got instead of get.

I would have said A was the least strange one. Not sure I have seen exactly that form, but the very similar "do x, why don't you" and "do x, won't you" are both idiomatic.

These are all incorrect

With these tests I am always curious what first language speaker came up with them and whether it's an error connected to that language.

And I thing it’s A, the auxiliar verb in absence of anything is do, therefore it’s the “don’t you?” But I could be horrible wrong

D. sounds the least wrong to me. Like a child phrasing it. Unless there's some wierd primer story it is based off above the cut off as part of a series of complex correlation questions where you are being asked to understand the story flow. Like if in it an employee were ordered to do something by a boss. Only then I could see B as the choice. Otherwise if I were to say 'Get me something to drink, ..' I'd say 'could you' or 'will you' after. Or more likely just 'please'.

D.

This is giving me flashbacks to why I didn't do well on some standardized tests for reading comprehension but did well on others. I thought maybe they were putting shit like this on tests to fuck with us and make us think harder but now that I'm older and more educated I'm starting to think the people writing these tests may have been underqualified...

D is the least bad, but even that is not natural, and comes across quite rude.

everything but D is insane. who’s talking like that

A and C are wrong B implies that the person you're talking to is *supposed* to have gotten you a drink, and is somewhat rude depending on tone D is something that people would say, and an English teacher here in the States might say "I don't know, *can* I?" As in "I don't know, am I capable of doing that?" The most polite and grammarically correct thing to say would be "Would you please get me something to drink?"

Here are some ways that sound more natural *asking someone for a drink 1. Will you (please) get me something to drink? 2. Please get me something to drink. 3. Get me something to drink, will you? [Informal. Possibly rude] 4. Get me something to drink. [rude for someone older] *Asking for help ordering a drink 1.You should order me a drink. 2. You should order a drink for me. 3. Can you please order a drink for me while I use the restroom? 4. Will you help me choose a drink? 5. Will you please help me decide what to drink?

D is *acceptable*, but sounds like a foreigner is speaking, or alternatively sounds quite rude (a statement followed by ",can you?" can sound rude because it sounds too much like an order) I'd say "can you get me a drink?". You could also say "could you get me a drink?". You could also say "Can/could you get me a drink, please?" or "Please can/could you get me a drink?". Personally, I think the latter is better.

Everybody is saying that D is the best option but still sounds unnatural. I do agree. I will just add that there are some extremely specific contexts on which B would make sense, though still be phrased a but unnaturally. Like if you ordered a drink from a waiter, and then they stood there for a minute and then said, "I'm not sure what I should do now." You might answer, "You should get me a drink, shouldn't you?" I could conceive of this being abbreviated to "Get me a drink, shouldn't you?". I will stress that this abbreviation still sounds really weird and unnatural, as much D does in the question. There's no way B should be the correct answer to the question, because there's nothing to suggest this narrow context and even then it would be stilled at best. But, in theory, there are some weird situations in which B would be acceptable, though still unnatural.

none of these sound at all natural

"Won't you" is the correct answer She should throw away the question itself.

I've been speaking English for the last 28 years. All of these answers are equally wrong but D is the slightly less wrong answer. If I had to phrase it similarly I would say "get me something to drink, would you?" "Can" and "would" are often interchangeable if you're making a request of someone.

American English here and none of these sound right even if they might be technically proper, I am unsure about this. From the picture alone I don't see any context at to how the conversation went up until this point. In this case I would say "can you pour me a drink?" Or a more polite version i would say "would you please, pour me a drink"

Please. the right answer is please.

D is the closest, but that would be quite rude still

D is the only one that sounds not-wrong, but I wouldn't actually try speaking like that: at the very least it needs a please.

Grammatically D is fine, but as others have pointed out it would be quite rude. This is down to sociolinguistics more than grammar. According to Brown and Levinson, politeness is (in part) about giving the person options. Thus, starting with a statement and adding a tag question at the end begins with a command instead of a request, and only changes it to a request at the last possible second, thus limiting the options. The ‘can you’ is also impolite because the only other option is that they can’t because they’re unable to, again not really giving options. Other modals like ‘could you’ or ‘would you’ provide the receiver with more implied options to refuse and thus makes it more polite.

Answer is D

D is correct but very rude 😭

only question tags need a negative in the end. statments usually dont have negatives in the end

D sounds decent but very casual

The trick is to put the bit after the comma at the front. "Get me a drink, can you?" becomes "Can you get me a drink?" The trouble is, no one would ever actually say this. It reads like sarcasm. "Get me a drink, shouldn't you?" becomes "shouldn't you get me a drink?" It implies you *should* get me a drink, and I shouldn't have to remind you. 

As a native speaker, I’d be more inclined to say couldn’t you, will you or please (American)

These all sound wrong, “won’t you?” would be most appropriate here

for me, this sentence only makes sense if the question is at the start ie; "why don't you get me something to drink?"

As a native English speaker non of these look right... I would say "Could you get me something to drink?" And I'd throw a please in as well. Option D makes sense it just doesn't sound quite right. Option B is just wrong...

Neither! Why are all the questions in this subreddit always so wrong? But, D is closer to correct than B, for sure.

- "can you?" - "will you?" - "would you?" - "won't you?" These are all fine and have varying liklihoods of use in different dialects. Best way to test it is by putting the bit at the end at the start. - "Can you get me something to drink?"

Ya know I pack a chainsaw....

D sounds the most logical among the options.

None of them tbh.  Sounds pretty rude imo!

Is your teacher a native speaker? I highly doubt it. None of these would be said in America.

These all feel really unnatural to me (New Zealand English, but it presumably applies to all English variants). I would personally say "Could you get me a drink?"

Whoever made this question is illiterate.

it's d.

Why the Yoda-like structure, I ask? It’s almost like you have to move the last two words back to the beginning. In which case, the best answer is D. B also then kinda works (though comes across a bit rude!).

D is the closest to correct and I feel like you might hear it in some old-timey movie

All of these sound wrong. B is awful, C is also wrong. D is better, but still wrong. I would say ‘Can you get me something to drink?’ Or ‘Get me something to drink, could you?’ - Native English speaker U.K. (England).

D is the only one that kind of works, but they’re all very rude. “Could you get me something to drink please?” would be how to express this.

English, this is not. Yoda speak, this is.

What’s that test? It should be „Can I get something to drink please?“ Like even „Get me something to drink, won’t you?“ is rude asf

These are all wrong. B and C are completely wrong. "Can you get me something to drink (please)" is what you would say.  D is the least incorrect.

All of these are awful.

Whoever wrote all of these is incompetent in English. Which means there is no correct option. They’re all ridiculous. If your teacher wrote this question, sorry to say, your teacher is incompetent and doesn’t know English. Only D is even a distant relative to actual spoken English. But even then it would be: >”Can you please get me something to drink?” Or “Can you get me something to drink, please.” Or, “Would you get me something to drink, please?” Or “Get me something to drink, please, would you?” The B answer, with a “shouldn’t you,” requires such a horrible twisting of any actual English phrasing that it’s absolutely a sign this teacher shouldn’t be anywhere near an English classroom.

those answers are nuts

E. Get me something to drink, yes?

Theyre definitely all wrong. 

As someone from England I have no idea what all these Americans are saying. Additing could you or can you to the end of a spoken request is fairly common. It's 100% D. It's very casual and probably braking some grammar rules. It's a way of making a request that previously sounded unintentionally rude or bossy sound less so.

People who are being extremely polite might say, “Excuse me, please. Would it be alright if I asked you for something to drink?” It’s basically apologizing for burdening the other person with your request. And asking for permission to ask is super indirect. I think, in English, it’s often considered more polite to be really indirect. I don’t know if that’s the same in other languages or not. But if you’re in a casual situation with a close friend or sibling, you can just holler out, “Hey, grab me one too.”

All wrong.

I thought the answer was D, someone can explain me why the answer D is not truth please ?

Native speaker here. They all sound unnatural to me. A and C have nothing to do with a drink request. B sounds like an arrogant King to a servant. D is the most polite of the four. I would personally use something like “Can you get me something to drink”. To a family member/friend who is already going themselves. “I would like a XYZ” if you are at a restaurant.

None of these are correct, but the closest would be D. Get me something to drink, can you?

Entirely depends on the context, but the use of the subordinate clause seems weird anyway. Surely, it should be 'Could you please get me a drink?' Or 'Shouldn't you get me a drink?' The lack of manners riles me.

D✅

You're right. 'Shouldn’t you' comes across as rude and demanding, as if you're saying the recipient should have already done it.

The real correct answer is "won't you"

B is correct. The speaker is complaining about the other's lack of etiquette.

All of these are wrong, it should be get me something to drink PLEASE

“Get me a drink, you will.” -Yoda

I'm British and they all feel off to me. The closest I can think of would be "get me a drink, would you", which I personally associate with a kind old-timey, upper class version of the language, though I would also say it if I were taking the piss a bit.

While I agree that there are better ways of wording this request, the target language for this specific exercise seems to be tag questions. With that being said, D is the only one that sounds OK to me, albeit slightly natural. "Will you?" is the most likely tag question you'll find for such petitions.

It seems like D, you’re both wrong

This is some Yoda bullshit. People have not talked like this- putting auxiliary verbs at the end of sentences- for several decades.

Technically, D is right, but no one talks like that as it sounds unnatural and weird. It also comes across as extremely rude as you are starting with a order and *then* asking if they can do it instead of phrasing the whole thing as a question. Can you get me something to drink sounds a lot more natural and less rude.

"Get me something to drink, will ya?"

If we move the part after the comma to the beginning of the phrase, D is the only one that makes sense. That being said, it still sounds incredibly unnatural. If the ending were changed to "would you," "wouldn't you," or "won't you" it would sound better but realistically, nobody talks like this. 😐

its d. tf obviously. its a command, not a question about someone's moral duty or past actions. So “can you?” fits.....! The rest are just… wrong. “shouldn’t you?” makes it sound like a guilt trip. “haven’t you?” sounds like you think they already did it. doesnt track loll

They are all wrong, but D is best of the options by a mile - it's grammatically correct but "sounds weird". It would be acceptable if the listener understands that the speaker's first language is not English. Options A, B and C are all 100% wrong, and would sound very wrong even accounting for English as a second language. "could you", "would you", "will you", and "won't you" are all more natural-sounding possibilities.

Correct answer "put tiny kettle on lad, I'm gasping"

Shouldn’t it be won’t you?

Tell your teacher that they’re wrong, can you?

Dang. I can’t imagine a native speaker saying any of these. I’m in the United States, for what it’s worth. Obviously, there are a lot of native English speakers OUTSIDE the United States, so I don’t want to assume everything that sounds wrong to me is wrong in some absolute sense. And I myself grew up speaking a dialect that might sound “wrong” to some other native speakers. Nevertheless, a substantial fraction of these types of “which one is correct?” questions on this sub seem not to have a correct option imho.

What is the context of the question? Which is grammatically correct? Polite? Casual? These are all mainly using the tone that you would say as an order/command primarily and not in a polite manner.

Read them from the comma: A. Don’t you get me something to drink? B. Shouldn’t you get me something to drink? C. Haven’t you get me something to drink? D. Can you get me something to drink? Hopefully this helps. The answer is D.

All of these are wrong. correct would be "Could you please get me something to drink?"

This is an imperative sentence and imperatives usually take will you or won't you. However can you or could you is also used depending on context and tone. In imperative form D is the correct one.

About "could you get me something to drink, please?"

None of these sound particularly like ideomatic English but certainly D is the closest.

I would never use any of those. I'm perhaps an overly-polite person, but my natural variations on this phrase would be: -"Could you please get me a drink?" -"Could I trouble you for a drink?" -"Could I have a drink, please?" The least unnatural would be D, but nobody uses that in American English

C is wrong, D is the correct answer, although the phrasing is not accurate. There’s a lot to unpack with all the answers, so l’ll just focus on why C is wrong and D is (albeit actually wrong) is the closest thing to a correct answer. In truth, all these answers are wrong. There are three main tenses, past present and future. “Get me something to drink” is a request for something. “Haven’t you”, in the context of a request, not a statement of fact, is past participial. It is questioning whether something has already happened. “Can you” is future participial, and refers to something that will happen (or may happen). In my opinion, the correct answer should be “Get me something to drink, would you?” In reality, by switching the words after the comma (and adding please), D becomes correct. “Can you get me something to drink (please)?” Is passable as a request. The omission of the word please, imply these are orders /commands nor requests and would be considered rude or, at least impolite. In reality, the sentences are badly constructed. Usually, when a statement is qualified with a question, it is to confirm the statement, for example; all four answers are questions not directions. To make them directions, remove the question. To make that direction polite, add “please”. “please get me something to drink.” - polite order “would you get me something to drink please?” - polite direction “Would you please get me something to drink?” - direction with implied frustration, phrased as a question “Could you get me something to drink please?” - polite question “

C is probably the worst and most incorrect option.

I'm not a native speaker but I have all the degrees needed to be called fluent and dude... your teacher needs to take the test, not you

A n C are absolutely incorrect. the other two? they ca pass but they still sound off

Chat gpt said it's D 🤣

Any of those would identify the speaker as new to English. I can't read them without imagining them spoken in a Dutch accent.

The teacher thinks it's B, you think it's C, so... we'll circle D?

Sentence structure like this is proof that Yoda's race originated on Earth. 🤓 Seriously, though: If you put the words in a different order, it should make sense. In that case, the only possible answer is D.

As a native speaker myself, none of these seem right to me

D is the only possible correct answer… and it’s something you’d only maybe hear on the BBC, and never on NBC.

B or D make the most sense if we're talking like Yoda.

You are right. Option C: *“Get me something to drink, haven’t you?”*, is wrong because “haven’t you” is a tag used after present perfect statements, not imperatives.

None of these are right. At best, B or D could be right if the end was at the beginning; "Shouldn't you get me something to drink?" which is sort of demanding or calling upon a higher authority, and "Can you get me something to drink?" which is the normal way to ask someone that question.

All are incorrect.

B and D are technically correct but yoda-d. If you un-yoda A and C theyre clearly wrong

I would never speak in this order. More over if someone said B to me, it’s rude, extremely rude and I am going to say something highly rude back at you because I am not your slave. Can You, D is polite and appropriate. C is wrong.

D sounds rude, but is grammatically correct. That might be the reason why your teacher himself doesn't know, they usually don't teach you how to be rude in another language

Shouldn’t you sound like a sarcasm lol it’s like “isn’t it your job?”

OMG who is writing these ESL quizzes?

To me, B is the only one that seems possible. They’re all weird af, but B kinda works if you say it in a fake accent, like think British evil villain. For those confused about why, B is the only one with a modal verb, which is what the teacher was looking for in this case.

In real life you’d only say Could you get me a beer please? Could you get me a coke please? I mean everyone knows what they want to drink!!

This kind of crappy test makes me sad for those learning English. It's all so weird and unnatural that I question if you are getting any proper tuition at all. Given that we are talking like Yoda here (that's how weird this sounds), then D is the best as "reconstruct, you can, to the right way". In the same way, you can reconstruct B, but I'll just tell you to get it yourself if you are going to be aggressive like that. The other two are nonsensical. Basically- this question is stupid.

Trick question, the correct option was to circle none of them

The teacher here is working with question tags, hence this format specially. But the other comments are right in that none of these are great options, but D is the least bad one. However, like people said before it sounds incredibly condescending and is not the usual

These all sound wrong. “would you?” would work. D almost works but all four are awkward and A-C don’t work at all.

If out of context, for these four??? A,B,C is like a commanding, they are like A: At least a little bit kind, like the second is taking drink and you ask him take my piece B: You SHOULD bring the drink to me you () C: Don't ya forgot the drink for me? or it's some culture difference I didn't know?

These are all ungrammatical, but D is the one that would sound best to most native speakers.

C could work if it started “Got me something to drink, have you?” It definitely does not work in the imperative, though.

None of these are good English. You can add tag questions to the end of declarative sentences. The polarity of the tag question is almost always the opposite of the declarative sentence; if one is negative, the other is positive. (There is a possibility that both are positive, but that becomes sarcastic.) If the sentence has a bare verb (other than "to be") with no auxiliary, the tag question uses the verb "to do" in its place. * You like dogs, don't you? * You don't like dogs, do you? * Oh, you like dogs, do you? (Sarcastic.) If the verb is "to be" then the tag question uses "to be." * He is tall, isn't he? * He isn't tall, is he? * Oh, he's tall, is he? (Sarcastic.) If the verb of the main sentence is helped by an auxiliary, then the tag question uses the auxiliary verb, again with the opposite polarity. * We have come a long way, haven't we? * You wouldn't laugh, would you? * I can dream, can't I? * He shouldn't say anything, should he? We typically don't add tag questions to imperative sentences. The two forms do different things; the imperative sentence commands someone to do something, and the tag question asks to confirm a statement. There is one similar form in some dialects, where the imperative is followed by "will you," "won't you," or "wouldn't you," but I don't think it's a tag question. I think it originated from the idea that questions are more polite than commands, so the speaker gave a command, then walked it back into a question. "Get me a drink--I mean to say, would you please get me a drink?" eventually becomes "Get me a drink... would you?"

I'm crying none of these are right 😭 D sounds the least bad tho

None of these are good. D is the least bad.

None of these are correct


It should be "won't you?"

Answer is will you, my grammar book says so.

Those are all bad. It's 'won't you', based on the first half of the sentence.

D doesn't roll naturally off the tongue to the point that if a writer wrote a character saying that it would need to be either someone whose first language isn't English or they were bad at saying words in that moment

D is correct. “Get me something to drink” is an imperative sentence (a command or request). Adding a tag question like “can you?” helps soften the command and make it sound more polite. The ones that could be used  will you?” (more commanding) “won’t you?” (more polite) “can you?” (neutral/polite) “could you? (Very polite) A is incorrect because   “Don’t you?” is used after declarative sentences, not imperatives. B is incorrect because “Shouldn’t you?” implies obligation, but the main sentence is a request.  C haven’t you?” grammatically inappropriate after an imperative sentence and doesn’t make sense in this context.

In C “haven’t” is past tense so “get” would have to be changed to “gotten” for it to work. B and D both work but in B it’s telling somebody to get a drink and in D it’s asking somebody to get a drink.

B would only work for Yoda

All are incorrect, but D is the least incorrect

None of these are even remotely correct. "Get me something to drink, please" or "Please get me something to drink," would be most formally correct. More informally, "Could you get me something to drink" or "Would you get me something to drink?" You also could say, "Can you get me something to drink," but that is almost a meme in itself of a child saying "Can I go to the bathroom," and the teacher saying, "I don't know - *can* you?" In some dialects, including mine, you can say, "Get me something to drink, would you?" But only if you pronounce the last word as "woodja," and it is informal enough that it sounds wrong to some other people who also are speaking informally. "D" is closest to correct, because it contains elements that exist. Both elements that exist are considered "wrong" in some contexts, and those "wrong" elements are *never* done together that way.

Native English speaker (Canada) This is weird. The most natural sounding option to me though would be D.

They are all wrong. Who wrote this set of questions? Starting with "get me something" is incredibly rude, almost irrespective of how the request is finished. It sounds like an order to a subordinate.

D is the only one that comes close to making sense.

Honestly, none of these are right.

D is the only one that makes any sense at all, but it’s still wrong: I’d say will you or would you (American English)

British: 'Would you please get me something to drink?' Australian: 'Mate, I'd love a cold drink'.

Is this class named ‘How to speak in Yoda 101’? D is the only one that’s even remotely close to a normal sounding sentence out of these choices. It should be ‘won’t you’, if this sentence structure must be used, but still, who speaks like this? Maybe I’m the fool.

So the easy way to figure that one out is to put the clause at the end (the part behind the comma) at the beginning. If it still makes sense with no changes, it's correct. B and D don't require you changing the tense of the verb. I e., changing "get" to "gotten." B is kind of rude, so I'd go with D. Fun trivia fact, get/got/gotten are ancient parts of Old English that have somehow survived 1,000 years of language evolution.

I think d is indeed the correct answer because the question here is a commend or a request so it takes a positive question tag

Mmm, the force is strong with this one - Yoda probably if he was the teacher

> Would you please get me something to drink?

It's D. A and C don't make sense, and B somehow simultaneously doesn't make sense and is incredibly rude. D is correct but still rude. 🥲

None of them are right but the least wrong one is D.

None of these sound right. "Will you" or "won't you" would be much better choices.


A speaker using any of those options would immediately be outing themselves, as a non-native speaker of American English, They are all clunky and weird. "get me a soda, will you?" Or "get me a soda, won't you?" Are acceptable, and, amusingly, mean the same thing: "would you get me a soda?" without a "please" at the start or end, a learner speaker with poor intonation may sound bossy, or rude.

Who made this test, Yoda?

TBH, all of these are very...odd. A native speaker would never say any of these. "Will you get me something to drink, please?" is.ich more natural.

Who the hell is writing these exams?

“Can you” is the only one that works. IMO

Get me something to drink, please?

These are all wrong. Flat out wrong. If the exercise is to make a statement and turn it into a question by adding on the bit at the end, then it would be will you, would you, or could you. It it has to be stated in the negative (for this specific exercise), then it would be "won't you" or "couldn't you" (but the second one would be a stretch). Anything negative, when you are actually asking someone to do you a favor, is considered very rude. Those statements all come across as rude. The way that people ask a favor is nicer. Will you get me a drink, please? Would you.... Can you.... (stickers for grammar would say this is incorrect, as well, but people speak this way) or Could you.... I do not know who wrote that test, but they do not know English well.

I’ve never heard ANYONE say ANY of these. It should be “Can you get me something to drink, please?”

Some people may actualy say somthing a long the lines of 'get me something to drink, won't you?'  In the lines of can/would you. 

D. is the only option that would work.

They all sound wrong. But D is the only one I would use.

OP, as you can probably tell from the comments, none of these is natural English because we don't normally separate auxiliary verbs from the verb they modify by so much. We would introduce the sentence with the auxiliary. Don't you get me something to drink? Not natural. Would usually say "Aren't you going to get me something to drink?" Shouldn't you get me something to drink? Somewhat accusatory though might be said in a joking manner. Haven't you get me something to drink? Wrong tense for the main verb, would be "got" or "gotten" (probably you'd be taught "got") Can you get me something to drink? Acceptable, but unless you are asking whether the person has the power to get you a drink (such as, are you old enough if it has alcohol) we would usually say "Could you get me something to drink?" or "Would you" or "Will you" When you start a sentence with "Get" like that, it's an imperative so if you do separate the auxiliary (which again, wouldn't be common) it really should be a "more polite" form like could or would.

It’s D. Not the greatest way to say it, but (unlike A, B, and C) at least D is correct.

Of them, it’s D. However, they all sound incorrect.

All of these are bad. The only correct option is "won't you?" But even that sounds old fashioned and weird. Like something from a western movie from the 1950s. It also sounds borderline rude.

You learning English on Dagobah? Master Yoda teaching ESL in his spare time? D is the only one that sounds slightly correct to my ear but none of them are really right.

Chat gpt joined the chat : Best and most natural option: > Get me something to drink, will you? --- Why "will you?" is better than "can you?" here: "Will you?" is commonly used after commands or requests when you're asking someone to do something politely. "Can you?" sounds more like you're asking about their ability (though it's often used informally too). "Will you?" fits both formal and informal situations better. Final Recommendation: > Get me something to drink, will you? ✅ (Most natural and polite) Get me something to drink, can you? ✅ (Acceptable in informal speech)

Bad question. “would you” or “won’t you” would be correct. B and D are both weird but acceptable phrasings, but I would expect a native speaker wouldn’t use either of them except in a sort of joking way,

Please don't say any of these to anyone you want to like you. They all sound super rude. D is technically grammatically correct but no one talks like that. Much better would be, "Would you get me something to drink?" Even better than that would be any of these: "Would you please get me something to drink?" "Would you get me something to drink, please?" or "Would you mind getting me something to drink?"

These all sound bad, but D is the only one that sounds terrible but it grammatically ok.

Why I think it should be "Get me something to drink, would you"? There is no reason to use this kind of negtive form(I am not sure correct usage name) for completing the sentence.

As an American, they all sound unnatural and a bit rude. D would be the most understood and I would take it to mean "Could you get me a drink?" But phrasing it in the way in the question turns it into a command first.. "get me a drink" which sounds very demanding. Placing the "can you?" at the end makes it sound like they are trying to take a rather rude statement and make it more polite. As others pointed out, finishing it with "would you" would sound more natural but a bit old fashioned. It's something you might say to someone very familiar to you such as your spouse but might be seen as rude if you said it to your server at a restaurant.

All wrong, wrong tenses and grammatical flow.  D  would raise the least amount of attention to its wrongness but is still wrong.

you wouldn't say any of these in (American) English. it would be 'please get me a drink?' or 'can you please get me a drink?'. we don't speak like what the paper says.

It's D. This is an example in English where the clause after the comma, the clause that turns this into a question, could have gone at the beginning of the sentence. Read each example as though it had. "Haven't you get me a drink..." versus "Can you get me a drink...", it's only the second if those two that works grammatically. Edit: "Shouldn't you..." would *technically* be grammatically correct, but you just wouldn't ever say that

Absolutely nobody talks like this

The first one would work if it said “get me something to drink, why don’t you?” But it’d be super rude. All of these feel really rude honestly.

D is the most correct in conversational English. B is arguably the most grammatically correct, but it would be considered rude. Trick: Take the words after the comma, and move them to the front of the sentence and it becomes more clear why.

All of these sound slightly unhinged, tbh. "Get me something to drink, would you?" ... Is how you would typically word it. You could say "wouldn't you?" on the end and I don't think anyone would think twice.

They're all bad

None of these sound right to me. I would say "won't you?" or "will you?" or "would you?

None of those sound correct.

as an american D makes the most sense

Don’t you get me something to drink? (?) Shouldn’t you get me something to drink? (Proper) Haven’t you get me something to drink? (?) Can you get me something to drink? (Colloquial)

They're all wrong, but D is least wrong. A, B, and C are borderline nonsense. D is weird, but gets your meaning across without sounding offensive. "Get me something to drink, will you" would be grammatical, but sounds condescending and rude. "Get me something to drink, won't you" would also be grammatical, but sounds entitled. "Can you get me something to drink, please?" would be acceptable colloquial English, and is the most common. "Will you please get me something to drink?" would be the most proper.

I'd actually say A, but all are rather rude sounding.

None are correct. Adding "would you"? is best choice, although it should appear at the beginning of the sentence.

None of these are correct

all of these sound wrong

B an D are kinda correct, but awkward as hell. Converted to a more natural word order they mean different things. "Can you get me a drink?" is okay is you want to order a drink, or if you are at someone's home and would like a drink. But it would be much better to say, "Can you get me a drink, please?" - especially at someone's home. "Shouldn't you get me a drink?" is really telling the person you are talking to that they really should have offered you a drink. Unless you are instructing a child in manners, or training a waiter, it's either a way of telling somewhat they are being rude, or is a rude way to ask for a drink. If you came to my house, sat down and said, "Get me a drink, shouldn't you?" I be tempted to say, "Learn to say please, shouldn't you?"

None. It should be "will" or "won't"

Did Yoda from Star Wars write this test question?

I don’t think any of these are correct

D is the answer but if you say that to someone you’re going to come off as rude, demanding, and an asshole. So just don’t.

All four of these responses are shite, is it supposed to be a frustrating trick question? The right answer would be 'will/would you' or 'please'

The only one which I can hear in my head as making sense is D, and even then it’s sarcastic and it only seems to work in a South Wales accent.

They’re all wrong but D sounds closest to correct

Maybe D. If anyone said the others to me, I would spit in their drink.

None of those are correct idiomatic American English. "Get me a drink, would you?" is something older Americans from all over, and people from the Northeast still say. In other regions it's borderline impolite to ask for something that way.

D is the only one that really makes sense, but the best option would be "Get me something to drink, would you?" That's still a weird phrasing at least in American English, and might be considered a bit rude. The better phrase would be "Could you please get me something to drink?" or "Could I have something to drink, please?"

D is the best of the options but can't see a native speaker using any of them

No answer makes sense, but the one that makes the most sense is D.

I would say your correct because you would never really use shouldn’t you because that’s very condescending and slightly rude so I would say can’t you is probably the best in this situation while being polite and choosing the grammatically correct one

All of these are wrong. If anything, it should say “get me something to drink, will you?” But that’s a strange wording too and not how people typically speak. “Will you get me something to drink please?” would be a more normal thing to say.

All of these are wrong to me (American English) I would say, “could you get me something to drink?” Or “would you mind getting me something to drink?” Something along those lines. I’d never even consider saying any of these

LOL all 4 of these are incorrect

No one would ever say any of these

The person who wrote this test should be fired.

Yoda be like: “get me something to drink, can you?”

Teacher is crazy and all of these are wrong.

A, C, and D are just wrong. B just sounds weird--it may be technically grammatical, but I don't think that's even true. As a native speaker, if I was saying this, I would say, "Get me something to drink, won't you?" But really, if I wanted someone to get me something to drink, I would say, "Could you get me something to drink?"

All weird choices.

I think the correct option is to NOT choose any, and just move on.

How my mom would have me say it. If you would be so kind, please may I have something to drink.

Australian English speaker, D is the least worse option. None are really correct, but at least D can be used. Unless the test is asking what two words to put at the start of the sentence, in which case B *could* be correct **if** you were being extremely rude.

"Get me something to drink, will you?" is the only version that sounds right to me and it's not even an option 😭 Edit to add - Even my version sounds a bit dated though, and perhaps a bit rude to modern ears. Best option would be "Can you please get me something to drink?"

D is correct, it just looks odd to many natives written down. It'd been fine to say in conversation, a little unusual - and rude without a please - but it's not grammatically out of place

I'd say get me something to drink will you?

Wth is this.. They all sound weird, but D is the least weird one ig

The correct answer is get me something to drink, please.

I don't like any of them.

No one really uses the “get me something to drink, can you?” in the US without it sounding a bit rude. But the point does come across, it just has a condescending tone as it doesn’t come across as a request, more like a demand that you aren’t 100% sure we are competent enough to complete. Best way to ask (in US at least, not sure how the brits or Aussies do it) is to say “Would you please give me something to drink?” or “Can I have something to drink please?”

It's a weird construction if you are learning the language. A trick that may help is to take that clause at the end and put it in front, then see if it makes sense. For example: Get me something to drink, can you? -> Can you get me something to drink? When you do that, it becomes much more clear. You will hear native speakers use the second construction far more often.

I would say "get me something to drink, would you" or "...can you." A, B, C are wrong in any case.

All of the these are the answer to get no drink at all and die of thirst. 

Get me something to drink, WHY don't you? Would be fine. Other than that, all of these are wrong.

“Can you get me something to drink” if I’m using the options, but the sentence structure is wrong if it’s for American English.

D is the only one that makes any sense, but it's still incorrect. The given construction is used to frame a request as a question. In context, it would be correct to say either "would you" "could you" or "won't you", depending on dialect. To use "can you" or "could you" or any of these others, you would need to put it at the beginning of the sentence as a "true" question, and restructure the grammar accordingly. It would also significantly alter the leading of the sentence.

A can make sense as written but it’s dialectical, the usual way to use “don’t” in a sentence like this would be to include “why”, as in “Get me something to drink, why don’t you?” This is a way to ask kindly but jokingly, as one friend might say to another friend at a camp site. B is firstly incredibly rude and secondly the phrasing is reversed. “Shouldn’t you” used this way is a command, not a request, in a way that implies the person the speaker is addressing should have done something already, and the speaker is telling them they haven’t done it yet. Always comes at the start of the sentence, eg “shouldn’t you get me something to drink?” C is grammatically incredibly off, in a way that’s not fixable. “Get me something to drink” is in the present tense, “haven’t you” is past tense. D is, while awkward, perfectly fine, and totally grammatical. Normally “can you” would come at the beginning of a request. Its sister, “could you,” can come at the end of a sentence more naturally. West Coast US English.

E. None of the above. I would say, "Could I have something to drink, please?" "Get me something to drink" is rude.

It’s a clumsy sentence that would not normally be used. That said, “can” refers to physical ability. The correct answer is B. Your teacher is correct.

None of them are correct. But C is wrong. It's using a past tense.

None of these are right, no one would ever say any of these. Get me a drink, would you? Is the only proper option.

It would sound more natural if the coma after drink was replaced with the question mark and the two words at the end put in front. “Can you get me something to drink?” Sounds the most right and is asking for it “Haven’t you get me something to drink?” Still sounds bad, but replacing get with gotten sounds better “Shouldn’t you get me something to drink?” Sounds good as well but is more like an irritated or accusing way from not being offered one. And “Don’t you get me something to drink?” I feel is like if you were asking a waiter or bartender if they’re the person who brings drinks. But if you used a period or exclamation point it would be more like someone warning or telling not to give them anymore drinks. But honestly all can be used within the right situation or location. 1 is more to me like talking to friends or maybe family, 2 is about the same just asking if you’ve received one so can be kinda anywhere, 3 for being like a guest or customer at like a restaurant or bar/drinking establishment, and 4 kinda the same as 3 but if telling to not be given more could also include friends/family. Hope this helps and makes sense, and please correct anything wrong if it is!

I would say would you and then, because this is a rude question, I would tack a curse word onto the end.

Why is Yoda writing your test

Will you is the right answer, all of these sound wrong to me...option D feels less wrong

"Can you" is the only one that sounds like something a human has actually ever said.

All of them sound wrong (UK). They also sound quite rude and impolite. D might be the most correct, if the speaker’s name is Yoda.

Terrible language, but the answer's D.

E. ... , plese.

Is there more to the question? It's either B or D. If you reverse the order, only B and D make sense. "Can you get me something to drink?" and "Shouldn't you get me something to drink?" both make sense although D applies to more situations than B because B sounds more authoritative whereas D sounds more respectful.

id say D because you can say like “get me something to drink, could ya?” but id say “can you get me something to drink”/“get me something to drink, could you?”

I’d say “could you get me something to drink?” which is actually somewhat incorrect but colloquially correct. Better would be “would you get me something to drink?” The best would be to add a “please” to either of those. Options: Please would you get me something to drink? Would you please get me something to drink? Would you get me something to drink please? (Or substitute “can” for “would in any of those. It’s not exactly the same meaning, but standard usage.)

Unless your teach is yoda yeah it’s D

“...will you?” would be much more common, but it would sound like it’s a quote from an old black-and-white movie. Any of these phrases are also a bit rude, unless you’re saying it to a good friend who knows you’re in a bad mood.

All four are wrong. Correct answers include will you and would you. D is the only answer that’s even close to correct, the only one that makes any sense at all. Note also: this is an exceedingly informal way to ask for a drink. It’s almost but not quite rude, just one step short of saying “beer me.”

The easiest way to figure out the correct one is to take the phrase that is set off by the comma and move it to the front. In this case, both of you are wrong, the correct answer is d. Your teachers putatively correct answer makes it seem as though there was a social cue that was missed and a drink that is now owed.

If you move the words after the comma to the beginning of the sentence, you get both B and D as normal sentences. "Shouldn't you get..." is a very accusatory or passive-aggressive way of demanding a drink, while D's "Can you get..." is slightly more polite, but still abrupt.

None of these are right

Those all sound really awkward. “would you” or “will you” work much better.

All of those options are weird and pretty uncommon.

All of these sound awful. I think it should be either: -Get me something to drink, won’t you? -Get me something to drink, will you? Or -Get me something to drink, would you?

"Do it. You won't."

A Would be right if they added a “why” after the comma. Same with B but the comma would have to be a semicolon C just doesn’t work. D is weird but I guess it works. Feels like Yoda speak. The best option would be if “won’t” was an option

All sound bad to me. Get a new class

"Get me something to drink" is a pretty rude phrasing.

That is one terrible test question.

D is the option I'd roll with as a native speaker of 48 years... though I don't think I'd say it that way voluntarily.

Would you. If not would you, could you. If not could you, will you? If not will you...idk...maybe can you...but it still sounds strange.

All I'll say is that it must be *twice* as hard to learn English when the course materials clearly aren't written by a native speaker.

B doesn’t make any sense at all, and the only one that vaguely does is D but is impolite. Instead, I would suggest Please can / would / will you get me a drink? Or Will / would / can you get me a drink?

I’d probably say “would you mind getting me something to drink?”

Not a native speaker but none of them sound natural to me

A would be right if it were "Get me something to drink, *why* don't you?"

"Get me something to drink, won't you?" Is all that would make sense to me (American English)

All of these options are wrong. It should be: "Will you please get me something to drink?"

95% of the time you'd say ", please?" I'm American English

As usual, all of these are wrong (one is perhaps technically correct, but doesn't sound natural). Whoever is making these should stop and get a different job. Either way, C is completely wrong.


All of these sound unnatural and really rude

They’re all wrong. You didn’t say, “please”.

D is ok, but usually it’s “won’t you” for a request.

With the caveat that I speak American English and maybe these make more sense in some other dialect: A doesn't convey a coherent meaning. I think it means "don't get me a drink", but I'm super unsure and would ask the speaker what they meant to say. I would only say B if I thought I had been intentionally snubbed and were really drunk. Apart from being really awkward B isn't a request; it's a complaint. It has the same feeling as "why haven't I got one too?" Like A, C doesn't parse for me. I think it means "did you get me this specific drink I'm pointing at?" but again I'm super unsure and would ask for clarification if I heard this out in the real world. D is the least bad, but it's still really awkward. I'd probably interpret it as "get me a drink" but it's not how anyone I've ever heard in real life would say it. Much more common is "get me a drink won't you?" but even that is a pretty rare utterance in my experience. While tone can change the meaning a lot it would probably be either "get me a drink" if a very informal situation, you have a lot more social power than the listener, and/or you're a jerk or "I'd like a drink (please)" if you're in a formal situation, you have less social power than the listener, and/or you want to present as normal person and not a jerkass space alien.

It's D. It's a request. Not a negative statement. > You can get me a drink becomes > Can you get me a drink? which can be reversed, as shown here.

A and C don’t make immediate sense. B is something that would apply to some very specific context, probably fictional. D is most correct, but pretty rudely phrased.

None of these are natural English phrasing, at least not in American English. I would say “would you” or “could you” or “will you” but never “can you”.

This is passive speech and should be avoided. Someone doesn't know how to write questions

D) is most correct, but will sound rude. That sounds like a demand, not a request. "Can you get me a drink?" Or "Can you get me a drink, please?" Now if you don't care about sounding abrasive "Get me a drink, will you?" Works best.

Yeah, D is the least worst and you might hear someone say that in northern England. However, it's quite a rude or abrupt way of asking.

These are all wrong, but I'd say D is the least wrong.

Technically B is the most correct, but practically you should use D instead. It sounds a lot less rude. Switch the parts to opposite sides of the comma to see better why each one does or doesn't work. A "Don't you get me something to drink?" B "Shouldn't you get me something to drink?" C "Haven't you get me something to drink?" D "Can you get me something to drink?" The first word needs to match with "get," since they're the verb phrase. You could rearrange it to put them right next to each other if it helps more. A "you don't get..." B "you shouldn't get..." C "you haven't get..." D "you can get..." C doesn't match. It should be "you haven't gotten..." And it does not work as a request. A matches, but also doesn't work as a request. D works, and works as a request, but may be too "casual" to be technically correct. That leaves B, which is socially rude, but is grammatically correct.

D I'd say but I'm dyslexic so who knows

Think d is only one that’s correct but no one really says it like that

D is the lesser evil

All of these are weird. I’d say “can you get me something to drink?”

Native speaker, the least wrong one sounds like A. I could see a very old Brit saying that. Otherwise they all sound terrible.

Both of you are wrong, however, "can you?" is the most acceptable one

Your teacher is, unfortunately, wrong. The "correct" answer, from a logical standpoint, is the one with "can you" (answer D), but, honestly, it sounds way too unnatural. Here are some better options: 1) Get me something to drink, won't/will you? (Used more commonly with people you know well); 2) Get me me something to drink, would/wouldn't you? (Used more commonly with people you know well); 3) Could you get me something to drink, please? (When talking to someone you don't know at all/very well, like, for example, a "friend of a friend").

The first part of that is extremely rude, no matter what phrase you end it with.

C doesn't make any sense. None of them are something I would say, but D is the least weird.

It is D. At least with American grammar. "Get me something to drink" is a request, and whatever you add to the end has to keep it that way. Practical advice: Very few people make requests like this except for small groups, at least in the US. If they do, they usually say "[Request], will you?" or "[Request], would you?" so "Get me something to drink, will you?" BUT it usually comes off as rude if you aren't around people who also do that. You can check it also by moving the end of the sentence to the beginning and seeing if it has the right meaning: "Can you get me something to drink?" is a sentence you would say to request something. That's why "Get me something to drink, can you?" works. "Haven't you get me something to drink?" firstly cannot be a sentence because the verb tenses are off. "Have you" or "haven't you" don't work at the end of a request anyway because it implies that you're asking a question. If I dont know what you have done, how can I ask you what to do? For it to work, you would say, "You've gotten me something to drink, haven't you?" because it's turning the statement "You have gotten me something to drink" into a question. "Don't you get me something to drink?" is a question asking if the other person is the one who gets the drink for you. For it to work at the end of the sentence and have this meaning, you would say, "You get me something to drink, don't you?" because it turns the statement "You get me something to drink" into a question. "Shouldn't you get me something to drink?" is also a question and not a request. "You should get me a drink, shouldn't you?" is making the statement "You should get me a drink" into a question. "Shouldn't you" is also often used to make a statement in a rude way as a rhetorical question. So you could also read those questions as rudely telling someone to get you a drink. Just for fun: "why don't you?" is said at the end of a sentence in some parts of the US usually in a teasing/exaggerating tone like "Burn down the house, why don't you" as a response to burning some food. This is something I would not recommend using in the US if you didn't grow up with it as it tends to sound odd coming from even a standard American accent.

All of these sound broken. Id say "please can you go and get me a drink?"

Is yoda your teacher?

It's not C I think your teacher is correct

D is the only one that kind of works grammatically, but it doesn't sound great. "Can you get me something to drink" is fine, but if you want to start with "Get me something to drink," it would be better to end with "could you" or "would you" (or better yet, "please").

These all sound wrong (native English speaker). I would say "Get me something to drink, would/won't you?" or "Get me something to drink, please."

None of the above is the answer. If someone said B to me I would see that as rude and if I even considered getting them the drink, I would definitely spit in it.

They are all weird.

I would ask the teacher to provide examples of B being used in print. Even one single example. Be firm. To see why I ask this, do a Google search, using quotation marks, for this: "get me something to drink, shouldn't you" The quotation marks tell Google you want to search for all instances where that exact phrase appears anywhere online. See what I mean?

Yeah none of these are correct. If you say it like this is structured, it'd be "Would you" or "Could you". Realistically, one would actually say "Can/would you get me something to drink"

Yeah, none of these are correct. It's "would you?" typically, in the US. "Won't you?" is probably UK English. And yes, "would you, please?" is better manners.

All are wrong.

All of these are super awkward.

All of these are wrong. It should be “will you?” or “won’t you?”

Is the teacher named Yoda, by any chance?

Beyond the issue of whether or not they are *grammatically* correct, none of these are idiomatic; they are not something a native speaker would ever say. "Won't you?" or "Will you?" or "Why don't you?" would be acceptable.

D is the least bad ?

None of these sound like native English. D is the most grammatically correct, but they’re all weird.

All these are strange.

It’s “can you please get me something to drink” or “would you please…”

Neither B or C makes any sense, same does A. D kinda makes sense but is awkwardly phrased.

It would be COULD YOU, not can you?

These are all bad. B sounds unhinged.

Frankly, none of them are right. "Will you?" would fit, but it's pretty rude; "would you?" would fit, but be very casual, only really for close friends; the best to use would be "Could you get me something to drink, please?" in any setting

All of these sound wrong. D is the least wrong. Also worth noting that all of these sound somewhat imperative, as if you’re telling someone to get you a drink rather than asking. I wouldn’t use this form outside of specific contexts. The better way to ask would be something along the lines of, “would you please give me a drink” or “may I please have a drink”.

I would have said D as well, neither A, B, nor C make sense to me

D is perfectly polite and good in the right context with the right intonation. It is also the only one that is grammatically correct, so it is clearly the correct answer. Someone saying this who has just recovered after fainting, or just fallen over, might easily say this in a very quiet voice and a falling intonation. This is the problem though. People teach such things without the student understanding that this said in a loud voice with rising intonation is basically going to come across as really rude and obnoxious, while in the example situation I gave, it would be accepted without question.

E, these are all wrong and really rude.

They all sound wrong but B and C are by far the worst

This is language going down the drain with generations being tough by people who've not learned the language correctly in the first place. Not a native English speaker.

You may need to look for a tutor or a new class because none of those are correct. Some ways that question could be asked are: Get me something to drink, will you? Get me something to drink, won’t you? Get me something to drink, would you? But these are also all considered demanding in a way that is often seen as rude (even in casual settings), so most would say: Will you get me something to drink? Would you get me something to drink? Won’t you get me something to drink? Can you get me something to drink? (The fact that last one is ok in this order is why people are saying D is the closest to correct)

There is gotta be Answer Key Section for Students’ books like this. Is there a way to check it?

I assume it's a father that's making a (soda) can-based joke.

None of the above. All of the above, if you exchange at least one word for its slang variant. Get me something to drink, why don't ya?

It would almost certainly be won’t you, will you, or would you. None of these examples are correct. However, you’re much closer to correct than your instructor.

Will / would / won’t are the only words that would make sense to me in this sentence. None of the options sound correct to me

D is correct

D is the best option from what’s here. However, as a Canadian I would say something like “get me a drink, will you?” or just “get me a drink too!”

(American English, Southwest) It is absolutely not B. That would be an extremely hostile way to ask for a drink. Only D is appropriate and none are actually correct. You’d normally ask: *May I have something to drink?* Or informally: *Could you get me something to drink, please?* But if someone asked me: *Get me something to drink, can you?* I’d find it weird they were talking like Yoda saying *can you* after *get me*, but I’d understand what they were asking me.

People seem to getting tangled up with whether these are polite or not. Ignoring that, and assuming the way to check them is to move the part after the comma to the start, all of them sound grammatically correct except C. But the others would require odd circumstances to be appropriate.

Only D is natural to me a native English speaker

These are all wrong I’ve never heard anyone say any of these before in my life ever if anything it should be “get me something to drink, won’t you” but even that sounds old fashioned

16 is a bad question. Ignore it.

None of the above. It’s “won’t you?”

Would you, will you, or won’t you could all work here. Where I live, it would be said more like “would you please get me something to drink?”

D is the best answer shown, but I'm 53 years old, and I've only heard people older than I am speak that way.

All of these sentences are grammatical nightmares

If you end with "haven't you," the first part should be past tense. And it's not a request - it would be to confirm that the person got a drink for you. "You've got me something to drink, haven't you?" To request them to get you a drink: "Get me a drink, please?" "Get me a drink, would you?" "Get me a drink, will you?" "Could you get me a drink?" "Get me a drink?"

B is 100% wrong. D is technically right, but it’s kind of an archaic way of saying, “will you?”

None of them are correct, and all of them are rude. But the circled answer is closest. It should be: "Please get me something to drink." Or, alternatively, "Get me something to drink, if you would?" or "Could you get me something to drink?"

I am not loving this quiz. Who talks like that?

All sound super wrong, should be please 

They all sound wrong 😂 Say each one out loud. They’re all stupid

it’s actually “Get me something to drink. will you?”

DDDDDDD

If you are paying for this course, ask for a refund.

all of these seem wrong to me, but D is definitely the most plausible with neither B or C ever being used in any context since they just don't work grammatically.

I mean, I see the point of the answer being B, implying that the host is not offering you a drink as they should but a proposition with a "would you" would have made much more sense.

What happened to please

As a British English speaker i would say "could you" if it were a question and "would you" if it were a direction, though in both instances I think these are a little impolite or forward. If i were to say it as polite as possible I would probably say "would you mind getting / bringing me XYZ" If we're talking specifically about using a comma to put the subject and verb at the end, I reckon that's a facet more common of British British and has a lot more nuance than "this is right, this is wrong"

I don’t like any of them. I would say,” Can you get me something to drink?” Or “Can you get me some to drink please?” Or “Get me something to drink please. “

Can you please get me something to drink?

None of these sound correct. Most people (if they aren’t going to just say “please”) would say “won’t you” “will you” or “would you”

This would be correct in the 1950s however in the modern era people dont typically speak this way. Its overly formal, distancing language. You would say: “would you get me a glass of water, please” instead, if you want to be easily understood.

Native English speakers have problems with English tests. Because English tests are in a different format than actual spoken English.

The correct is “could you please get me something to drink?

D

One of my grandmas used to say "Do you want to take this into the kitchen? " (while handing me a dish) My response, at least once, was, "I don't want to, but I'll do it anyway"

I…. I think all of these are wrong? Native speaker here. I’d say “won’t you”, or “please” at the end.

Who says B? Who says any of these? As a proofreader/editor, the extraneous words would be struck. Would you get me a drink? The end.

I read them all in the voice of Master Yoda. All sound awful though, "can you get me something to drink please".

What is the point of the test I wonder? It’s obviously grammar, but does it accompany a textbook? I’d like to see what the textbook has to say about this.

All of them are literally wrong it’s “Can you get me something tonight drink?” D is the least bad, the other three directly change the context of the question to where it’s almost a statement.

If you put the words after the comma before the start all these can work

A or D I would deem acceptable. None are common or of the best ‘grammar’

All of these hard fucking wrong lol

I'm with all other native speakers - your right and your teacher is wrong.

All of them are good depending on context imo. But I like D the most. (Not a native) EDIT: But as others have said theyre weird - except can you Id say. If I was to rate it C < B < A < D, but they all depend on prior context. Wont you, will you, could you make sense.

All look wrong and impolite to my (British) eyes. I would prefer either "Please could you get me something to drink?" or "Please, may I have something to drink?".

I wouldn't say any of these.

dude they're all wrong

I'm betting that your English teacher is not a native speaker.

They all sound incorrect to me!

Personally I'd say please

It should also have semicolons instead of commas. Both clauses in each answer can stand on its own, so it shouldn’t be separated by a comma.

I have never heard anyone speak this way in English. The only way people would ask for a drink is to ask "Can I/may I have a drink"? But your answer is incorrect because it's asking for something in the present (now) or near future so you wouldn't use a word that means in the past.

How about, "Could you please, get me something to drink?" Or would you?

We don't say any of these, but D is the closest I guess. We say will/would.

all of thse are incorrect. it’s: ‘….will/would you?’

God these comments are awful, B is objectively correct, just because its rude as shit doesnt make it grammatically incorrect, also how do you all think D works? It sounds so off and if you put a little bit of thought into it B makes a lot more sense than D.

Tell your teacher the Americans said B is wrong. Unfortunately for you the Americans also say C is wrong. None of them are correct, but D is the least wrong. People would actually say, “Can you get me something to drink?”

Your teacher is definitely wrong. Most people I know would say, "Get me a drink, would you?" or "Get me a drink why don't you"

None of these are right it’s all utter nonsense (native English speaker and English major)

all are awful, but D is definitely the “best” of them

As a native English speaker you wouldn't say any of these. "Will you?" Or "won't you?"

I would say, "Would you mind getting me something to drink?" I am a native English speaker on the East Coast of the U.S.

This is a dumb question. C is the best option, but none of them are good.

All feel wrong. None of these would be said by a natural speaker.

D is good, but most people at least in America would say “will you” or “wouldn’t you”. C is objectively wrong, there are other cases you can use that, like “you’ve been out here for a long time, haven’t you?”

All of these sound wrong to me. Would you sounds the most correct here.

These are all wrong

All of these sound wrong to me (American English). I would say "will you" or "would you".

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It's D but the natural way to say is can you get me something or will or would or could you get me something You could say shouldn't you get me a drink in certain situations though it may sound rude. You could also say won't you get me a drink and it means almost the same as will you but more passive aggressive. You could even say are you going to or aren't you going to. They all ask a similar question will you do a thing or are you not going to do a thing? Since there are only two outcomes you can phrase it as a negative or positive and they mean the same thing.

I would say D, the rest don't make sense to me.

I can't imagine saying any of these sentences. The last one might sound slightly less bad than the others, but none of them seem right (at least in the form of English spoken in my country).

It's D option