What can I offer you
Is it correct to say "what can I offer you" in an affirmative form using such an order of words, or is it correct only "what I can offer you"? I mean in sense "I can offer you something". Google translates the first way, but this is incorrect according to the basic rules of grammar.
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Here are the possibilities. Your choice depends on how you use these words in a sentence. Statement: I can offer you something.
- Here are the possibilities.
- Your choice depends on how you use these words in a sentence.
- Statement: I can offer you something.
- Question: What can I offer you?
- Embedded clause: Let me tell you what I can offer you.
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Here are the possibilities. Your choice depends on how you use these words in a sentence.
Statement: I can offer you something.
Question: What can I offer you?
Embedded clause: Let me tell you what I can offer you.
I don't know of any other ways those words might be ordered and be correct.
CJ
0"What can I offer you?" This is a direct question.
what I can offer you This is not a question. It is a subordinate clause that has to be part of a larger sentence.
eg What I can offer you is coffee.
eg I don't know what I can offer you.
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