sentence: I'm being attended on(?)

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi,

When you go shopping, a clerk can ask you: Are you being waited on?
Then you can answer: I’m being waited on.

Then, my dictionary says wait on is similar to attend on.

Then, in a store, are the expressions below possible?

Are you being attended on? or I’m being attended on.

Maybe it’s not common, I guess. What do you think?

Thanks,
sweetpumpkin

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Hi SP,

The expression I would use is ‘attended to’. If an assistant comes up to you in a shop and asks if they can help and you have already had another assistant go and look for something for you, you would say: Thank you, I’m already being attended to/I’m already being looked after. ‘Wait on’ to me suggests when a waiter is looking after you in a restaurant.

Alan

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Hi,
I don’t know exactly.But I think “wait on” roughly means “attend to”.(NOT attend on)
It is normally used in a restaurant.
Regards,
Morteza

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Thank both of you. :slight_smile: I’m very glad that I can get some precious knowledge from here that my conversation book doesn’t say.

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Good morning Sweetpumpkin.

In England you will also often come across the phrase, “Are you being seen to?”

Your reply would be, “Yes, thank you.”