Sentence translation help

[Chris U]

Hey everyone. I have the following sentence that I need to translate into Chinese for my Chinese class:

"I'd like to go to your office right now to ask you a question. Is that okay?"

I put the following:

＂现在我想问您一个问题在您办公室。好吗＂

Although I have a feeling that this is not correct. Is there a way to integrate the verb 去 into this sentence? If someone could help I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

-Chris

[zhxlier]

我想现在去您的办公室问您一个问题，可以吗？

[Daan]

zhxlier's translation is correct.

A good rule of thumb is that adverbial phrases expressing the time or location at which the verb takes place generally go before the verb. Therefore, you can't say 问您一个问题在您办公室: you have to say 在您办公室问您一个问题. It's better to say 在您的办公室 though, as in zhxlier's translation. The 的 is needed here to express possession. Of course, you're not expressing the location where you want to 问您一个问题, you're suggesting going there, so you have to use 去 and give the place where you want to go. After that, yuo can optionally indicate what you want to do when you're there:

我明天要去北京。'I am going to Beijing tomorrow.'

我明天要去北京买书。'I am going to Beijing tomorrow to buy books'.

Note that the adverb 明天 goes before 要.