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Please specify what
time you ask someone
else that you are going
Please confirm the date, to meet (1st)
time, and place by
phone, mail or other
If someone you want to telecommunication aids
meet is available at the with someone else you
given time, then you
If someone you want to can arrange the want to meet (2nd)
meet doesn't match objectives of your
your given time, you meeting, (3rd)
had better find an other
possible time. (4th)

Figure 2. Useful Steps of Making an Appointment

An appointment is a settled arrangement to meet, like a dentist’s
appointment, an appointment with your accountant, or an
appointment to have your palm read (vocabulary.com). Appointment
is an arrangement between people to meet; an engagement, for
example; They made an appointment to meet at six. I’m leaving work
early because I have a doctor’s appointment (en.wiktionary.org). Here
there are some useful phrases that we can use when we are going to
make schedule for meeting someone or appointee;

How to ask for an appointment
The following sentences are ways to ask for an appointment:
Are you available on Monday?
Are you available next Monday?
Are you free on Tuesday?
Are you free next Tuesday?
How does the third sound to you?
Can we meet on Wednesday?
Can we meet next Wednesday?
Would next Thursday be ok?
What about next Friday?
Is next Saturday ok?
How to confirm an appointment
Yes, Monday is fine.
Yes, Tuesday would be fine.
Wednesday suits me.
Thursday would be perfect.

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