please suggest vs Could you please suggest

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Please suggest' is a more direct and concise way to ask for a suggestion, while 'Could you please suggest?' is a more polite and formal way to make the request.

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please suggest

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a direct way to ask for a suggestion. It is commonly used in informal situations.

Examples:

Please suggest a good restaurant for dinner.
Please suggest a solution to the problem.

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Please suggest a different ending, maybe in a second edition...
Please don't suggest kidnapping to two cops.
Please, I suggest we call DAS to bring in a hostage negotiation team.
But please, do not suggest that the Commission should do things that are frankly difficult to accept.
My request to the Council is: please proceed as I suggest; we shall be more than happy to acknowledge such a procedure.
Then I suggest you say "please".
I would suggest over the counter Ibuprofen, but if your headaches become more severe or more frequent, please give me a call, right away.
The available pharmacokinetic data suggest that the concomitant use of rifampicin and VIRAMUNE is not recommended (please also refer to section 4.5).
Please take these two examples as proof of the fact that Parliament is much more in favour of reform than the report might suggest.
I suggest to the Commission today: please find a way of involving parliamentarians in some dimension of that summit.
If there is a medical (or other) reason why you cannot take either of these test meals, please tell your doctor, who will suggest an alternative.
Please the court, I suggest the members be dismissed... so that we can move to an immediate Article 39-A session.
Please send a short note or e-mail to me with the relevant facts which I will communicate to the Commission, as you suggest.
May I suggest that I try to briefly answer the various questions that have been put and if you think I am speaking too long, please tell me so.
I would ask the Commissioner, when he brings forward these proposals, as he suggests, next year, to please bear this in mind.
Please do not ask me to justify the sustainability of this to you here and now, but please believe me that it is a matter of acute political sensitivity and one, if I may suggest, best handled by Irish governments rather than under an EU directive.
Please. Well, I suggest that if you want to keep any kind of job, you go in there and tell your little pals at the council that Fraser is the most amazing headmaster you have ever had the privilege of working for.
Bug reports and feature requests should be submitted through the kde; Bug Tracking System. Before you report a bug or suggest a feature, please check that it has n't already been reported/ suggested.
Could the Commission please look into this and suggest ways of protecting consumers by putting an end to this TV fraud and bring those who commit this felony to book?
Can Commissioner Borg please advise me as to what action will be taken against the fishing vessels of Spain in the light of the auditor's report, which seems to suggest the complicity of the Spanish state in the illegal fishing activities of the Spanish fleet?

Alternatives:

Can you suggest?
Could you suggest?
Would you suggest?
Do you have any suggestions?
What do you suggest?

Could you please suggest

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a polite and formal way to ask for a suggestion. It is commonly used in professional or formal settings.