I'm free tonight! So what do you offer?
Suggest? Propose? Are you proposing?Kidding! Are you confused a little?
Do you know the difference? Suggest, offer, propose. If you are confused then this lesson will help you!
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So let's find out what's the difference first of all let's talk about suggest.
Here we talk about an opinion, when you give your opinion you suggest something, you have an idea!
And usually you do not give exact variants.
He suggested going out. But where? What shall we do? He just suggested going out.
As you can see after suggest you can use a gerund, going, with the ending -ing.
Or you can say: He suggested that we should go out.
Here we use a clause - that we should go out - after the verb suggest.
But make sure to use the verb 'should', suggest that somebody should do something.
You can use a noun after suggest, for example, you can suggest an idea, you can suggest a plan.
He suggested cutting the class but I didn't think it was a good idea.
We are talking about somebody's opinion.
When we deal with a verb offer usually you give something to somebody
and that person accepts it or doesn't.
You can talk about service, you can talk about help or some material things as well.
Can I offer you a drink?
My sister offered me a cup of tea to soothe my nerves.
A glass of wine would be better. He offered me his help.
As you can see you can use a noun or a noun phrase after offer, or you can use an infinitive.
He offered to help me. Stuart offered to take us to the airport.
Do not use a gerund after offer and do not use a clause.
Propose is connected with a plan, so usually there is a plan of action.
You present your plan and it is something specific.
It is a little bit narrower than suggest, but it is close to the verb suggest.
My colleague proposed lowering the price. We can use a gerund after the verb propose:
propose doing something, not propose to do.
He proposed a boycott of the meeting. A noun can also be used after the verb propose.
And we can also use a clause: He proposed that we should cut the meeting short.
You can also propose marriage, the verb propose used alone means proposing marriage.
You can propose a toast. To you and to your rapidly developing English skills!
If you are talking about your plans for tonight do not use offer,
do not say 'what do you offer for tonight?' Better say 'What do you suggest?' or 'What do you propose?'
Imagine that you are selling your car and your friend wants to buy it.
And you are asking: 'What are you offering ?' not 'What are you suggesting?' or 'What are you proposing?'
Because here we talk about material things. How much money or what do you want to give me for my car?
And offer is all about giving and accepting. Make sure to like this video and I will make many many more!
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