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Making Offers "Can I help you?"

How to make offers in English? "Shall I bring you the mobile
phone?
It is common that English  Shall is more formal than can.
speakers make offers in conversations  Would you like… is followed
in order to be polite and helpful. When either by a noun, or by the verb
they do so they use these expressions: with to.
Example:
Can I… ?
"Would you like some tea?"
Shall I… ?
Would you like … ? "Would you like to drink some
How about ...? coffee?

English learner must be able to make

offers as well as accept or reject them.
The following are useful expressions to
do so.

Making offers:
Can I help you?

Shall get you some juice?

Would you like a glass of water ?

How about some pizza?

Examples:

 "Can I help you?"

 "Shall I open the window for
you?"
 "Would you like another cup of
coffee?"
 "Would you like me to clean the
board?"
 "How about a juice? "

Remember:

 Shall, can and will are followed

by the verb without to.
Example:
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Responding to offers  "I'll do the washing, if you like."

Accepting Declining "It's OK, I can do it."
Yes please. I'd like to. It's OK, I can do it "Don't worry, I'll do it."
That would be very kind myself. "Thank you, that would be
of you. Don't worry, I'll do great."
Yes please, that would it.
be lovely. No, thanks The words "already, since, for, yet,
Yes please, I'd love to. No, thank you just" are often used with the present
If you wouldn't mind.
perfect. Below, we will see what they
If you could.
mean and how they are used with the
Thank you, that would
be great.
present perfect.

Examples: The form of the present perfect tense

"Can I help you?" Let's first review the form of the
"No thanks, I'm just having a look." present perfect tense:
(With a shop assistant.) The auxiliary 'have' (in the simple
present form) + Verb (in the past
 "Can I help you?" participle form)
"Do you know where the post
office is."
The different forms of the present
 "Shall I help you with your perfect:
math’s problem?"
Positive Negative Interrogative
"Yes, please. That would be
very nice of you." I have I have not Have you
done... done... done...?
 "Would you like a cup of tea?"
"No thanks." Or, "No thank
you." Examples:

 "Would you like another piece  Have you written the

of cake?" report yet?
"Yes please, that would be  No, I haven't written the
nice ." report yet.
"Yes please, I'd love one."  Yes, I have already written the
report.
 "Would you like me to do the  She has just written the report.
ironing for you?"  I have known her for a long
"If you wouldn't mind." time.
"If you could."  I have known her since 2007.

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