1.   Can I have the spoon please?

2.   Can I have the spoon?

3.   Can I have a spoon please?

4.   Well have a spoon, mouthful of tea afterwards.

5.   By the time my son was two, we had more spoons in his sandbox than in the kitchen.

6.   I wondered if my mother really had a spoon on a rock.

7.   You have a spoon, or you do not.