Suggestion and offer

Hi guys! 
In this post i would like to discuss about "Suggestion and Offer".
It's also one of the topics that i will study this semester. 

Lets get to the point shall we? 

Suggestion (noun) in Indonesian means " Saran".  Suggestion is an expression used to express a suggestion or advice.  Examples of expressions that can be used to express suggestions are as follows.

- You should ...

 - You ought to ...

 - It's better for you to ...

 - I suggest you ...

 - I advise you to ...

 - Why don't we / you ...?

 - How about ...?

 - You had better ...

 - Let's ...


 Example sentences of advice:

 - You should sleep early (you should sleep early)

 - How about making a cake? (how about making a cake?)

 - Let's go to the beach (let's go to the beach)

Offer

 In English, Offer can be used as a verb meaning to offer or as noun which means offer. Offer is an expression used to offer a favor or an item. The following is an example sentence that is used to express an offer:

 a. To offer help we can use the following expression:

 - May I help you?

 - Can I help you?

 - What can I do for you?

 - Would you like me to ...?

 - Can I lend you a hand with that?


 b. To offer goods we can use the following expression:

 - Would you like some ...?

 - Would you like something to ...?

 - Should I get you ...?

 - What can I get for you?


 Example sentences offer:

 - Would you like some tea? (do you want tea?)

 - Would you like me to get you a drink? (do you want me to help you?)

 - Should I get you a bandage? (should I get a bandage for you?)


 From the explanation above, we can draw the conclusion that the use of suggestions and offers are quite different. Suggestion is used to give advice to others while offer is used to offer help or goods to others. The phrase used to express suggestion and offer is different.

The Following Dialogue is an example for using Suggestion and Offer:

A: Hi B! For independence day later ... what if you join the competition to
 represent our class?

 B: Hi, hmmm ... OK, but what competition do you think is suit for me?

 A: What about the tarik tambang contest? Because you often exercise physically so you can definitely compete with other classes.

 B: that's suit me, but ... I heard competition is already full of members?

 A: That's right, what if you switch places with C? Because he didn't want to join tarik tambanh contest, he wanted to take part in the sack race.

 B: please ask him, if he agrees then I'm willing to take part in the tarik tambang competition.

 A: Alright.

 * 20 minutes later *

 A: Hi C! I heard you joined the tarik tambanh competition,is that right? 

 C: right, but I do not want to join this contest.

 A: what competition do you want to take?

 C: Race sack.

 A: Well, by chance B wants to join the tarik tambang, it's just that it's full of members, would you like to switch roles with him?

 C: Of Course!

 * B is coming *

 C: Hi B after I discussed with A what if we just exchanged the role of the competition? You joined the tarik tambang while I joined the sack competition.

 B: Wow! Of course!

 A: Alright then you guys switch roles now. 

 B&C: Ok, thank you A!

 A: You're welcome