{"id":1913,"date":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T08:51:23","slug":"could-you-vs-would-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-grammar\/could-you-vs-would-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot the Difference: \"Could You\" vs \"Would You\""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-grammar\/could-you-vs-would-you\/#The_Issue\" >The Issue<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-grammar\/could-you-vs-would-you\/#What_the_Data_Says\" >What the Data Says<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-grammar\/could-you-vs-would-you\/#How_to_Explain_This_to_Students\" >How to Explain This to Students<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-grammar\/could-you-vs-would-you\/#%F0%9F%91%8B_Thats_It_For_Now\" >\ud83d\udc4b That\u2019s It For Now!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>Basically every day, at least one student will ask a question like, \u201cTutor, what\u2019s the difference between X and Y?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, the difference is easy to explain. Other times, though, these questions remind me of those \u201cspot the difference\u201d puzzles \u2013 the challenging kinds where the differences are as hard to find as a needle in a haystack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it doesn\u2019t help that some students aren\u2019t satisfied until they get some definitive-sounding but overly simplified answer like \u201cX is more polite than Y.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So to give tutors a hand, we\u2019ll try to tackle questions like these in our posts. And we\u2019ll start with \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between \u2018Could you\u2019 and \u2018Would you\u2019 requests?\u201d as in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Would you<\/strong> please close the door?<\/li><li><strong>Could you<\/strong> please close the door?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Is one of these correct and the other not? Or is one of these more polite than the other? Read on to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Issue\"><\/span>The Issue<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A large part of the confusion comes from the fact that textbooks, courses, and native speakers all seem to disagree on this issue. For example, here are three explanations we found online:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cWould you\u201d is correct, because you are asking if someone will do something and not whether they can do it. \u201cWould you\u201d also sounds more polite than \u201cCould you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cWould you\u201d and \u201cCould you\u201d are equally polite and valid ways to make a request.&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cCould you\u201d sounds more polite than \u201cWould you.\u201d \u201cWould you\u201d sounds more insistent and is more often used in angry requests, such as \u201cWould you please hurry up!\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>So how are English learners supposed to know which one to use?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_the_Data_Says\"><\/span>What the Data Says<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To get to the bottom of this mystery, we first consulted some large libraries of spoken and written English. Here\u2019s what they had to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In formal situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cWould you\u201d and \u201cCould you\u201d are both used. For example, searching through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcript\/2020\">US Supreme Court cases<\/a>, we found that judges made requests with both \u201cWould you\u201d and \u201cCould you.\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cWould you\u201d is more common. For example, people delivering speeches ask people to stand up using both, but the \u201cwould\u201d version is about seven times more common in subtitled speeches on YouTube: close to 300 results for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youglish.com\/pronounce\/%22Would%20you%20please%20stand%22\/english?\">Would you<\/a>\u201d but just 39 for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youglish.com\/pronounce\/%22Could%20you%20please%20stand%22\/english?\">Could you<\/a>.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And in informal situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Both \u201cWould you\u201d and \u201cCould you\u201d are also used.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In some instances, they appear with equal frequency. For example, the set phrase \u201cWould\/Could you do me a favor?\u201d appeared almost an equal number of times in either form in libraries of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-corpora.org\/coca\">modern American English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-corpora.org\/glowbe\/\">English used globally online<\/a>. The number of times both \u201cCould you\u201d and \u201cWould you\u201d were used to make angry or impatient requests (e.g. \u201cWould\/Could you please just \u2026 \u201d) were also roughly equal.<\/li><li>However, in other instances, \u201cCould you\u201d is more common. For example, \u201cCould you lend me \u2026 ?\u201d and \u201cCould you get me \u2026 ?\u201d were two to three times as common as their \u201cwould\u201d counterparts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So it seems that \u201cWould you\u201d and \u201cCould you\u201d are often interchangeable. However, \u201cWould you\u201d is more common in formal English and \u201cCould you\u201d is more common in casual, everyday situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Explain_This_to_Students\"><\/span>How to Explain This to Students<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, some students might think, \u201cSo \u2018Would you\u2019 is more polite, right? I\u2019ll just default to that then.\u201d And there\u2019s nothing wrong with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if your student actually cares about sounding polite, fixating on the difference between \u201cwould\u201d and \u201ccould\u201d isn\u2019t the right way to go about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters, the data doesn\u2019t say that \u201cWould you\u201d is more polite. It simply says that it\u2019s more common in formal situations. And politeness and formality are two different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politeness ultimately depends on how a listener interprets what a speaker says, and given the data, it seems most people wouldn\u2019t notice which word was chosen, let alone interpret it as rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What people will notice is the tone of voice. For example, experts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnersdictionary.com\/qa\/would-you-or-could-you#archive_months:~:text=Both%20of%20these%20choices%20are%20polite,an%20angry%20%20and%20intonation%2C%20the\">Merriam Webster<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/qanda\/data\/faq\/topics\/Usage\/faq0002.html#tou-3.0-92cbfbd0-4ef7-4cf5-8574-1a96819f7c24:~:text=Now%2C%20as%20far%20as%20I%E2%80%99m%20concerned%2C,used%20interchangeably%20with%20%E2%80%9Cwould%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9Ccould.%E2%80%9D\">Chicago Manual of Style<\/a> say that the difference between \u201cCould you\u201d and \u201cWould you\u201d is trumped by matters of tone and context. They provide the following example sentences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cWould you do me a favor?\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cWould you please just shut up.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cCould you please email me the directions to your house?\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cCould you PLEASE turn off the lights in your room?\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In either set, the first sentence is polite while the second isn\u2019t, and this has nothing to do with whether \u201cwould\u201d or \u201ccould\u201d was used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if a student actually cares about politeness, we can encourage them to focus on more important things like their tone of voice \u2013 and to stop worrying about the intricacies of \u201cwould\u201d and \u201ccould.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%F0%9F%91%8B_Thats_It_For_Now\"><\/span>\ud83d\udc4b That\u2019s It For Now!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope this post gives tutors an idea of how \u201ccould\u201d and \u201cwould\u201d differ as well as an understanding of how to handle questions regarding their differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked questions like this, keep in mind that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some students are <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/answering-questions-when-you-dont-know\/\">not ready<\/a> to productively explore the differences between two words.<\/li><li>Sometimes, the things students most want to know don\u2019t actually help them achieve their goals (in this case, sounding polite).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find this blog post helpful, make sure to let TS know, and we\u2019ll make more of these! You can also let us know other questions students often ask you and we\u2019ll try our best to answer them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically every day, at least one student will ask a question like, \u201cTutor, what\u2019s the difference between X and Y?\u201d Sometimes, the difference is easy to explain. 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