The meeting will please come to order...

[Dina]

Can anyone explain the usage about "Please come to order"?
How can "Please" be interpreted? Is it the same as in "Please, be more
careful."?

And can you give some examples with the same usage of "will" in the
sentence,"The meeting will please come to order."?

[Dina]

On 4월10일, 오후7시06분, "Dina" <***@naver.com> wrote:
And is it possible to put "please" in a declarative sentence?

Best regards,
Dina

[Robert Lieblich]

Post by Dina
Can anyone explain the usage about "Please come to order"?
How can "Please" be interpreted? Is it the same as in "Please, be more
careful."?

Yes. It's a simple interjection used to indicate an intention to be
polite.

Post by Dina
And can you give some examples with the same usage of "will" in the
sentence,"The meeting will please come to order."?

You need a little work on your punctuation and spacing, but let's stay
for now with the question. This "will" is used to indicate a command
or a strong request. When a drill sergeant says to the troops: "You
will shine your shoes," he is ordering them to do so. When the
teacher says "We will now read chapter three," she is asking her
pupils to read chapter three, expecting them to comply.

"Come to order," when addressed to people in a meeting, asks them to
stop whatever else they are doing and pay attention to the business of
the meeting. It's an idiom.

[John Dean]

Post by Robert Lieblich

Post by Dina
Can anyone explain the usage about "Please come to order"?
How can "Please" be interpreted? Is it the same as in "Please, be
more careful."?

Yes. It's a simple interjection used to indicate an intention to be
polite.

Post by Dina
And can you give some examples with the same usage of "will" in the
sentence,"The meeting will please come to order."?

You need a little work on your punctuation and spacing, but let's stay
for now with the question. This "will" is used to indicate a command
or a strong request. When a drill sergeant says to the troops: "You
will shine your shoes," he is ordering them to do so.

And, in the Brit armed forces at least, it is used as part of a command to a
body of troops indicating what is intended:

"Squad will move the left ... LEFT ... turn!"

It's also used in written orders:

"Battalion will depart at 0600 and will secure the crossroads at map
reference ..."

[Don Phillipson]

Post by Dina
Can anyone explain the usage about "Please come to order"?
How can "Please" be interpreted? Is it the same as in "Please, be more
careful."?
And can you give some examples with the same usage of "will" in the
sentence,"The meeting will please come to order."?

As is normal in English, meaning and function are
governed by context: so we need to understand the
context.

Formal and written "Rules of Order" govern formal meetings.
For example, these rules prohibit two people's speaking
simultaneously and require, before any action is agreed, its
approval by at least two people (proposer and seconder of a
motion.) These provisions do not apply to everyday informal
association between people: i.e. in any group people sometimes
speak simultaneously and groups may agree to do what one
person proposes (i.e. do not require a proposer and seconder.)

Thus "Come to order" gives formal notice to participants that
from this moment the Rules of Order should govern behavior
They assert the chairman's authority and command silence
(because under the Rules of Order no one may speak unless
"recognised" by the chairman.) This function establishes the
context in which we understand whatever is first said.