Thomas Borchert writes:

It's an easy sentence, agreed. However, it is NOT a sentence in the AIM
nor the Pilot/Controller Glossary or the ICAO standard phraseology.

The AIM and glossary do not provide sentences, only sentence fragments (with
rare exceptions).

It is
also not the proper way to phrase a question in standard phraseology. It
is plain English, but that doesn't help a foreigner trained to expect
standard aviation phraseology. And THAT is exactly what standard
phraseology is for.

If the foreigner can understand English, he can understand "non-standard"
phrases.