Shall I use your phone?

[diamondcutter]

Complete the dialogue with proper sentences.
A:Oh no! My phone just died. ______?
B: Of course! Here you are.
...
This is one of the answer keys.
May/Can/Could/Shall I use your phone/yours?

Source: the English test paper, Senior High School Entrance Examinations 2019, Henan province, China

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[题目]根据下面的对话情景.在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子.使对话的意思连贯.完整.A: Oh no! My phone just died. [1]?B: Of course! Here you are.A:[2]! I'll only be a minute.A: A lot of thanks again. I was calling my mom.[3].B: Great! I hear your mom is really nice.A: Yes, she really is. But my mom is talkative. She talks to everybody...

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I don’t think “Shall I use your phone?” is appropriate in this context. “Shall I...” is usually used to make suggestions not requests. For example,
Shall I take a gift to my host family?
Shall I add your name to the list?
Shall I put the fire on?
Shall I run you home?
(All the above sample sentences are from Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary)
What do you say?

 

[5jj]

I don’t think “Shall I use your phone?” is appropriate in this context. “Shall I...” is usually used to make suggestions not requests.

Right.

 

[kadioguy]

For example,
Shall I take a gift to my host family?
Shall I add your name to the list?
Shall I put the fire on?
Shall I run you home?
(All the above sample sentences are from Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary)

Really? I can't find them on https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/shall?q=shall.

 

[teechar]

Really? I can't find them on https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/shall?q=shall.

In fairness to Diamondcutter, they're all there, but not under "shall". However, the first one is slightly misquoted.

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I don’t think “Shall I use your phone?” is appropriate in this context. “Shall I...” is usually used to make suggestions not requests.

I agree that it wouldn't work as a request, but it can work as a suggestion.
For example, if those were two colleagues working on the same issue in some call centre (or tech support centre), then it can work.

 

[diamondcutter]

I put "Shall I" in the search bar of "百度翻译", which is a translating tool, and I got this page:

https://fanyi.baidu.com/?aldtype=85#en/zh/Shall%20I

Every sample sentence is labeled with its source and the sentences I chose are from the Oxford dictionary.

 

[jutfrank]

Although the version with shall can work as a suggestion, it doesn't work in this context. The response Of course! Here you are shows adequately clearly that person A is making a request.