Today I went to a company and saw a man A entered a meeting room and interrupted a remote video meeting in the room. The remote meeting stopped suddenly and the man A (non-native English speaker) said that "please complete the sentence", and then the man C on the other side of the video resumed his talking.
In this context I thought the saying that "plase complete the sentence" is not native and seems Chinglish. Were I the man I would say "please continue". What would be polite and native in this case?
Best Answer
Both are grammatically correct, though "please complete the sentence" does sound contrived.
Oddly, it might sound a bit more natural as:
That's still quite a direct request, and has a higher chance of sounding impolite.
You might also consider the imperative "do," as in: