Please allow me to vs please let me

Both "please allow me to" and "please let me" are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They are interchangeable and can be used to politely ask for permission or assistance.

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Please allow me to

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to politely ask for permission or assistance. It is a formal and polite way to make a request.

Examples:

Please allow me to introduce myself.
May I ask you to please allow me to leave early today?
Could you please allow me to speak with the manager?
I hope you will allow me to explain my side of the story.
Please allow me to express my gratitude for your help.

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Please allow me to recoup your losses, Sire.
Please allow me to help you, Mrs Tranter.
Please allow me to apologise to Master Lung.
Please allow me to borrow your very handsome head.
Please allow me to make three further points.
Please allow me to outline the reasons for maintaining our position.
Please allow me to open a parenthesis about the Twilight saga.
Please allow me to comment on the elements missing from the programme.
Please allow me to start with some general remarks about the Code of Conduct.
Please allow me to introduce to you your most avid of admirers, my daughter, Miss Lefroy.
Please allow me to take you to a safe place.
Please allow me to highlight, and subscribe to, a number of important elements of your draft resolution.
Please allow me to make an appeal to caution: democracy has a price, as we all know, and citizens must understand that.
Please allow me to make a few brief comments on the importance of this Parliament's vote on this resolution.
Please allow me to say, Commissioner, that, following our debate on this issue, the United Nations clearly deserves the utmost respect.
Please allow me to express my and our group's satisfaction with the motion for a resolution we are going to vote for tomorrow.
Please allow me to give an example from my own region, which is bounded by the frontiers between the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
Please allow me to congratulate the Austrian Presidency for the excellent work it is doing this year as leader of the OSCE in particularly complex circumstances.
Please allow me to make a few observations and put forth some questions regarding these affirmations:
Please allow me to present Baby Feels-A-Lot.

Alternatives:

please let me
please permit me to
please grant me the opportunity to
please give me permission to
please enable me to

please let me

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to politely ask for permission or assistance. It is a more casual way to make a request compared to "please allow me to."

Examples:

Please let me know if you need any help.
Can you please let me borrow your pen?
Let me help you with that.
Let me take care of the bill.
Let me explain how it works.

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Alternatives:

please allow me to
please permit me to
please grant me the opportunity to
please give me permission to
please enable me to

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