Making Suggestion and Requesting Something

What's making suggestion and requesting something? 

MAKING SUGGESTION

Making Suggestion is how you express your suggestion to someone. 

1) WHAT ABOUT/HOW ABOUT ... + Base form + -ING

•       What about going to the swimming pool tomorrow?

•       How about going to the swimming pool tomorrow?

2) WHY + Negative

•       Why don't we go to the swimming pool tomorrow?

3) IMPERATIVE: Let's + Base form

•       Let's go to the swimming pool tomorrow! 

4) COULD

•       We could go to the swimming pool tomorrow.

5) DO YOU WANT + the infinitive

• Do you want to go to the swimming pool tomorrow?

REQUESTING SOMETHING

Requesting Something is what we say when we want to ask someone to do something for us.

Requesting

Would you mind …, please?

Can/Could you …?

Will/Would you …?

Please …

Accepting Requests

Sure, I’d be glad/happy to …

Of course/Certainly.

No problem.

 Sure. Just a moment.

Refusing Requests

I’d loved to, but …

It sounds great, but …

I’m/sorry, but …

Sorry to say that …

Biasanya, "would" atau "could" digunakan saat formal. Seperti pada contoh 

berikut:

Could you open the window for me, please? Sure.

p.s Would you mind is followed by the verb and -ing.