"our first attempt to do this was to offer a free gift with every car rental, which we were confident the customers would be very interested in. our offer of a free hoover with each rental, however, did not attract any new customers so we quite quickly stopped offering it."
it seems from the text that gift and hoover are synonyms but I didn't find such a meaning for hoover in the dictionary. are these two words the same?
Remember that all sentences must begin with a capital letter. A "Hoover" (brand name) or "hoover" (genericised) is a vacuum cleaner. They gave away a free vacuum cleaner.
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Remember that all sentences must begin with a capital letter.
A "Hoover" (brand name) or "hoover" (genericised) is a vacuum cleaner. They gave away a free vacuum cleaner. That was the gift.