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Little Girl Posted 12 years ago
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With ease

Hi, experts!

If you offer something with ease, does it mean you offer it "easily" or that you offer "ease" as part of the package?
  

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I would never offer anything 'with ease'. It means nothing to me.

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  • I would never offer anything 'with ease'.
  • It means nothing to me.
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I would never offer anything 'with ease'. It means nothing to me.
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Could you please explain why and how?
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You can do something with ease, but generally that is some physical or mental task that you can do with little effort.

He adds long columns of numbers with ease.
The horse jumped the high fence with ease.
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Yes, but why can't you "offer" something "with ease" too? I don't understand how saying something like "John offers teaching services with great ease" could be wrong.
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It makes sense to say "John teaches his students very complex concepts with great ease."

It does not make sense to "offer with ease" because an offer is something static, something that is just made available, but does not directly involve an effort or activity until that offer is accepted. You can accept an offer with ease.
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I just Googled "offer * with great ease" and the result is "about 11,700,000 results(0.62 seconds)".

One of the searches does show "we offer freight forwarding services with great ease.".
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Little GirlI just Googled "offer * with great ease" and the result is "about 11,700,000 results(0.62 seconds)".One of the searches does show "we offer freight forwarding services with great ease.".
Google hit counts are just huge random numbers, often stupidly different from the number of actual retrievable results. In this case I see 24 actual retrievable res
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Well, obviously, I trust you, experts, but I still don't completely understand how offering services with ease is wrong.
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Little GirlWell, obviously, I trust you, experts, but I still don't completely understand how offering services with ease is wrong.
The reason it sounds strange is as AS said: the verb "offer" does not seem to involve sufficient "real" action or activity for it to be performed "with ease" or otherwise.
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Little GirlWell, obviously, I trust you, experts, but I still don't completely understand how offering services with ease is wrong.
Doing something with ease suggests performing a physical action with less difficulty than might be expected, or making a difficult task look as though it is easy. Offering services is not something that would be viewed as e
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