offer
part of speech
verb (offer, offers, offered, offering); noun (an offer, offers)
meaning for a pupil
1) To offer is to say you will give something to someone, or to hold it out for them to take. tree →
2) To offer to do something is to say you are willing to do it. tree →
3) An offer is a deal, like a lower price: a special offer. tree →
4) An offer is also the thing or money someone says they will give. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a giving action, or a sale price: «special offer», «buy 2, get 1 free»; work out the real cost per item. In everyday life: offering a seat on the bus, offering help, shop deals. In stories: a kind offer, or a stranger's offer that is a trick. Safety: be careful of offers that seem too good to be true.
examples
- She offered 3 cookies to each friend. tree →
- The shop has an offer: 2 for 5 dollars. tree →
- He offered to pay half. tree →
- On offer, pens are 1 dollar each. tree →
- He offered his seat to an older lady. tree →
- Thank you for the offer, but I am full. tree →
- Never accept an offer of a ride from a stranger. tree →
- The special offer ends on Sunday. tree →
- The library offers free reading clubs. tree →
- One of them offered him an Alpine rose. tree →
note
Offering things away means take away. A shop offer gives a new price or deal; work out the cost from it. Trap: an offer that is refused does not change the amounts. Past: offered (one «r»). «Buy 2, get 1 free» means you pay for 2 and get 3. Safety: offers that are too good to be true are often scams.
In the corpora
- Banks offer children's accounts to keep savings safe and teach how banks work.
- Anyone offering free game coins for your login is a scammer trying to steal the account or a parent's card details.
- Supermarkets are designed to make people buy more than they planned, with offers, smells and treats by the tills.
- An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who or why; offer help, not guesses.
- Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «offer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.