Promoting sale of a particular product (There is an offer on this shampoo)
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While attending customers at a grocery store, which one/ ones of the following sentences would be natural? The context is: A sales representative is attempting to increase the sale of a particular product.
1. Ma'am, there's a special offer on this shampoo today: 1.1 It's buy one and get one free! / 1.2 buy one and get one free!/
1.3 You will get one free on buying one! / You will get one free on buying one!
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2 are possible. In the UK at least, usually the expression is "Buy one, get one free" (no "and"). g.
- 2 are possible.
- In the UK at least, usually the expression is "Buy one, get one free" (no "and").
- g.
- on a sign) it might seem a little unusual to include the word "and", but in speech perhaps not quite so much.
- 3 is not natural to me.
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1.1 and 1.2 are possible. In the UK at least, usually the expression is "Buy one, get one free" (no "and"). In writing (e.g. on a sign) it might seem a little unusual to include the word "and", but in speech perhaps not quite so much.
1.3 is not natural to me. (Here you wrote the same thing twice; I'm not sure if you typed it as you intended.)
The use of "Ma'am" in such a context i
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