Can you | we ? (QUESTION)

At A1 in the category of MODALITY, there are two points:

  1. affirmative question form.
  2.  ‘can’ to make a request.

and in the category of QUESTIONS:

a limited range of modal verbs + subject + main verb to form ‘yes/no’

*Because these points clash with higher levels, the main difference to note is that all the examples from the English Grammar Profile for these points have the pronouns can + ‘you’ or ‘we’.

A search in iWeb corpus for:

. Can you|we * ?

1 . CAN YOU HELP? 2403
2 . CAN YOU IMAGINE? 593
3 . CAN YOU EXPLAIN? 208
4 . CAN YOU RELATE? 184
5 . CAN YOU ELABORATE? 170
6 . CAN YOU TELL? 145
7 . CAN YOU CLARIFY? 127
8 . CAN YOU ADVISE? 110
9 . CAN YOU CONFIRM? 82
10 . CAN YOU GUESS? 59
11 . CAN YOU ASSIST? 47
12 . CAN YOU COMMENT? 42
13 . CAN WE TALK? 33
14 . CAN YOU SURVIVE? 22
15 . CAN YOU SEE? 20
16 . CAN YOU READ? 17
17 . CAN YOU UNDERSTAND? 16
18 . CAN YOU EVEN? 15
19 . CAN WE GO? 13