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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

offer somebody to do something

Hello,

Can you please check which ones are ok. I think the first one is wrong but I'm not sure. Thank you very much

Clare offered him to take a rest before the voyage

Clare offered him taking a rest before the voyage.

Clare offered him that he should take a rest before the voyage

Clare offered to take a voyage to him before the voyage

Clare offered a rest to him before the voyage.

Thank you very very much again.I'm looking forward to your answer.
  

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The only one that is correct (grammatically) is the last one but it sounds slightly odd to offer a rest. You might offer someone an opportunity to rest, a room to rest in, a bed to rest on, but the rest itself doesn't quite work in this sentence. You don't quite seem to have got to grips with the meaning of 'offer'.

— Nona the brit

  • The only one that is correct (grammatically) is the last one but it sounds slightly odd to offer a rest.
  • You might offer someone an opportunity to rest, a room to rest in, a bed to rest on, but the rest itself doesn't quite work in this sentence.
  • You don't quite seem to have got to grips with the meaning of 'offer'.
  • You can offer to do something.
  • You can offer a thing or a service.
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The only one that is correct (grammatically) is the last one but it sounds slightly odd to offer a rest. You might offer someone an opportunity to rest, a room to rest in, a bed to rest on, but the rest itself doesn't quite work in this sentence.

You don't quite seem to have got to grips with the meaning of 'offer'. You can offer to do something. You can offer a thing or a service. But y
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Nona The Brit
You can offer to do something. You can offer a thing or a service. But you can't offer that someone else do something.

Clare offered to take a voyage to him before the voyage

Thank you Nona, but doens't the sentence above follow your rule?
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It doesn't make sense because a voyage is not something you can take to someone. You can take a can of drink to someone. You can take an elephant to someone. You cannot take a voyage (a journey) to someone.

You could take a voyage with someone - you accompany them on the voyage.

But this sentence is more complicated than that - you are offering to take a voya
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