Giving Suggestion And Offering Something

1. WHAT IS SUGGESTION AND OFFERING 

    An offer is an expression of willingness to do something. Meanwhile, a suggestion is usually an expression of an idea for someone else to do something. We usually use an offer to ask people if they are need something or help. And we usually use a suggestion to give an advice for people.

2. HOW DO YOU EXPRESS SUGGESTION AND OFFER ?

Making Offers	Accepting Suggestions	Declining Suggestions
How about I help you with this?	Yes, please, that would be very kind of you.	Don't worry, I will it myself.
Can I take you home?	Thank you, I appreciate your help.	That's all right, I will manage on my own.

3. HOW DO YOU GIVE A SUGGESTION ?

Use a modal verb

There are two modal verbs we often use for giving advice: ‘should’ and ‘ought to’. Both mean the same thing but work in slightly different ways. Let’s look at some examples.

You should do more travelling.
You shouldn’t drink so much beer.

As you can see above, after ‘should’ we use an infinitive without ‘to’.

You ought to do more travelling.
You ought not to drink so much beer.

Unlike ‘should’, we always use ‘to’ in ‘ought to’ for giving advice.

Make it into a question

To make advice less direct, we can use a question to make the person we are advising consider about the advice we are giving them.

Why don’t you do some more tidying?
How about doing some more tidying?

With the question ‘Why don’t you…?’ we use an infinitive without ‘to’. When we use ‘How about…?’ to make a question, we use a gerund after it.

Put yourself in the person’s position

If someone is asking for your advice, sometimes it’s useful to imagine yourself being in that person’s position. This is a good way to explain your advice, too.

If I were you, I would travel more

Remember to use an infinitive after ‘would’ and not ‘to’. To make this negative, put ‘not’ after ‘would’.

Make a suggestion

A suggestion or recommendation is another good way of giving advice that isn’t to direct. You can use the words ‘suggest’ or ‘recommend’ as in the example below.

I would suggest doing more of an effort.
I would recommend doing this instead.

Use ‘verb+ing’ after ‘suggest’ or ‘recommend’ to explain your advice to the listener. To make these negative, put ‘not’ before your ‘verb+ing’.

Advise in a stronger way

Sometimes, you need to make your advice stronger to let the listener know that it’s really important. We can use the expression ‘you had better…’ to do this.

You had  (You’d)  better start working on your homework.
You had  (You’d)  better finish this assignment in time. 

We use an infinitive after ‘better’ to explain our advice and add ‘not’ after ‘better’ to make the sentence negative.

4. What is the difference between suggestion and advice?

One can give advice for the problem or can simply give a solution. Advice, seems to be an opinion with command or control and even manipulation. A suggestion on the other hand is used in the sense of giving an idea. Suggestion, seems to be used as a plan or an idea without any command or control and manipulation. 

5. Example

Ridwan       : Hi Raisa how are you?

Raisa          : Hi Ridwan, I'm fine thank you, how about you?

Ridwan       : I'm fine too

Raisa          : Great

Ridwan       : I heard you want to said something to me

Raisa          :yeah,  i heard that our school is holding a poster contest next week

Ridwan       : yeah, and then?

Raisa          : you should join it

Ridwan       : I'm not sure about that Raisa

Raisa          : What? Why?

Ridwan       : I'm not confident enough

Raisa          : Oh come on.. i think you should try it.

Ridwan       : But I have no idea for the theme of the poster, or do you have any idea?

Raisa         : Uhmm let me think about it. Oh!  How about taking the latest issues?

Ridwan        : Such as?

Raisa           : New Normal

Ridwan        : Wow i think That would be very nice.

Raisa           : That's a good idea right?

Ridwan        : Yeah

Raisa           : So is there anything i could do for you?

Ridwan        : Thank you for your kindness, but i think i can handle it.

Raisa           : okay

Ridwan        : Oh wait! I think i need your help

Raisa           : What?

Ridwan        : What shall i do to make the title interesting?

Raisa           : Just write " New Normal"

Ridwan        : Nooo.. Let's give it a more a interesting title

Raisa           : I don't know, you don't have any suggestions?

Ridwan        : uhmmm, how about this " New Normal, New Habit"

Raisa           : Sounds great

Ridwan        : Really?

Raisa           : Yeah, if i were you, i would just write "New Normal" hahahaha

Ridwan        : So Dull...

Raisa           : Whatever

Ridwan        : hey, i want to make the poster now

Raisa           : oh okay 

Ridwan        : Thank you for your help Raisa!

Raisa           : My pleasure, Good luck buddy!

Ridwan        : Thanks

source : https://englishlive.ef.com/blog/english-in-the-real-world/5-simple-ways-give-advice-english/