Learn English – The proper way of asking this “would you mind…” question

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I know this is not properly written:

“Would you please mind a minute to answer my messages?”

Is this the correct way?

“Would you mind taking a minute to answer my messages please?”

Or where should the “please” word go?

Best Answer

The correct one is

“Would you mind taking a minute to answer my messages please?”

To correct the first one, it could rather be written as,

“Would you please mind taking a minute to answer my messages?”

(The position of please is not the thing causing the problem here)

Also, Would you mind is already being used as a "polite" phrase, so "please" can be omitted.