GUDANG BACA

 

A.    What is offering help?

Offering help is an expression used to offer help to others using English sentences. So when will we use offering help in our daily life? The answer is when we want to offer help to others. Usually offering help using English, we simply say "can I help you?". In fact there are many expressions that we can use to offer help in English apart from the previous expression, we can even distinguish between formal and informal situations.

How to express help or thing. How to accept and refuse an offer?

Offering Help

·         Can I help you?

·         What shall I do for you?

·         Would you like me to check this computer for errors?

·         Shall I bring you a glass of water?

·         What/ Where/ Which … Would you like me to…?

·         Do you want me to post that letter for you?

Responses to accept an offer:

·         How kind of you! Thank you very much.

·         That’s very good of you!

·         That’s terribly kind, Thank you very much.

·         Yes, please do.

·         What a good idea!

·         Yes, please.

·         Thanks. That would be excellent.

·         Yes.

Refusing or rejecting an offer:

·         It’s all right thanks. I can manage that alone!

·         No, thank you. But I am very grateful

·         That’s awfully kind, but there’s no need.

·         No, please don’t bother.

·         No, thank you.