Feb 25, 2014 · If you are asked what is your name, you are expected to reply with your name and your surname e.g Adelaja Adebisi, which is a compound name making it singular. On the other hand, if asked what are your names, and you give your names as Adelaja Adebisi Tolulope, then, the Tolulope added to it makes it plural so it is correct.

99% of the time, all you have to do is say, "Hello, my name is X.It's a pleasure to meet you." Then, if the person is respectful, she would reciprocate by saying something like "It's good to meet you too, I'm Y."

Dec 25, 2016 · Speaker A: Hello, what's your name? Marilou ; It's Marilou; Hi, I'm Marilou. My name's Marilou; The phrase My name is Marilou has a quite formal tone, the only time I've used it was in presentations, or when I had to teach about introducing yourself in English. This American English video, which was made by a teacher called Rachel, is really ...

The past form acknowledges (or implies) that you already gave your name, to diminish any annoyance you may feel at having to repeat yourself or to take any 'blame' if in fact you didn't give it. In the second case, we don't have enough context to know why the teacher used the past form: it suggests that he had gotten the impresssion earlier ...

Mar 5, 2017 · When asking for someone's name, especially for the first time, it is 'what is your name?' - you have no idea who the other person might be to risk using abbreviated speech. – JMP Commented Mar 5, 2017 at 15:10

Aug 19, 2016 · In your examples, "May I ask you what your name is?" is valid. "May I ask you what's your name?" is awkward; a fluent speaker wouldn't say that. Well, someone might say that in informal speech, but you wouldn't write it or use it in formal speech. Use of contractions gets tricky some times.

Here the subject is your name. If we want to make the question with what at the beginning of the question, then we need to invert, to change round, the subject and the auxiliary like this: What [is] [your name]? What is your name? If we do not invert the subject and the auxiliary, the sentence is ungrammatical: *What your name is? (wrong).

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Oct 26, 2015 · This is typically asking for your name, but a particular context could indicate a different meaning. What are you? This question is very informal and bit odd. It is a very terse question which implies some understood context. If you're in a business meeting it could be your role - e.g. "I'm the accountant"

And, for your information, the verb tell is almost always followed by a noun or pronoun: tell me, tell you, tell us, tell Ankita. etc. "she told my name is" makes no sense. – Lambie Commented Apr 28, 2018 at 14:32