Page 10 - English E-Module Suggestions and Offers Grade XI

When asking for offers, we often use the following expressions:
May I …? Can I …?
Shall I …? Would you …?
How about I …?

D. LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS

Suggestions
Formal: S + Modal (should, could, ought to, etc) + V + complement
S + suggest + (that) + S + should + V + complement
Informal: WH question What about going to the park tomorrow?

Offers
Informal:
• What can I get for you?
• Have some …?
• Won’t you have a …
• Like this one?

E. SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Suggestions
Subject Verb That Object
I suggest that she clean her
room.
We recommend that he watch “Black
Panther:
Wakanda
Forever”.
I propose that an assignment
should be sent in.
I put forward that we join together
on this.
We advise that she work hard.
I advocate that We support them
anytime.
Table 1. Sentence structure to suggest something

Offers
Modal Verb Subject Object
Would You care for another cup of
coffee?
Shall We take you there?
Could I offer you something?
Will You have coffee with that?
Table 2. Sentence structure to offer something

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