1. The most direct request strategies are mood derivable statements that directly say what should be done, like "Leave me alone" or "Clean up the kitchen." 2. More indirect strategies include explicit performatives that state the request, like "I am asking you to move your car", or hedged performatives that soften the request with modifiers like "I have to ask you to clean the kitchen right now." 3. Other indirect strategies involve want statements, suggestory formulas, query preparatories, strong hints, and mild hints to imply a request rather than stating it directly.