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Radovan Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

on offer

Hi. I am used to use the idiom "ON OFFER". That is the way it is used in dictionaries, too. A few days ago I saw in an internet news report a sentence "She discovered skydiving ON AN OFFER for tourists." Is it ok, with the indefinite article, or is it wrong? In my opinion it is wrong.
Thanks a lot anyone who will clarify.
  

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radovan Is it ok, with the indefinite article, or is it wrong? It's OK, but not an instance of the idiom, on offer ..

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radovan Is it ok, with the indefinite article, or is it wrong?
It's OK, but not an instance of the idiom, on offer..
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radovanShe discovered
Here are my impressions.

She discovered skydiving on offer for tourists. ~ She saw an advertisement about skydiving. She did not necessarily do anything about it. She just noticed that skydiving was available for tourists.
She discovered skydiving on an offer for tourists. ~ She went skydiving. The reason she
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HI CJ. Thanks. Yes, she went skydiving, that´s what the news said. You are probably right then. So the idiom "on offer" only has something to do with advertising, not with the actual accepting or turning off the offer if I get it right.
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radovannot with the actual accepting or turning off rejecting the offer if I've got it right.
That's right.
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Thanks CJ. I meant to write "turning down" but got it mixed up Emotion: smile Thanks for correcting.
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