{"id":11,"date":"2014-04-03T05:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-04-03T05:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:29:56","slug":"making-suggestions-chatting-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/making-suggestions-chatting-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Making suggestions | Chatting to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Saying what you want to do<\/h2>\n<p>When you are talking to friends or colleagues, you will often need to be able to talk about what you would like to do. Use I\u2019d like to \u2026 (= I would like to) or I want to \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019d like to visit New York.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d like to talk to you.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d like to have a word with you.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d like to meet the manager.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d like to get a copy of this report.<\/li>\n<li>I want to leave early today.<\/li>\n<li>I want to leave by 5 o\u2019clock.<\/li>\n<li>I want to invite you all for dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Making suggestions<\/h2>\n<p>One way of making suggestions is to use the phrase We could\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We could hire an expert.<\/li>\n<li>We could ask Ram to help us.<\/li>\n<li>We could meet at the restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>We could meet another time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to do something with your friends or colleagues, use <strong>Let\u2019s\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s wait a little longer.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s invite them for dinner.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s have something to drink.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s take a break.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see if other people agree with you, use Shall we\u2026?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shall we get something to eat?<\/li>\n<li>Shall we go for a walk?<\/li>\n<li>Shall we ask her if she wants to come with us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shall we send her some flowers?<\/li>\n<li>Shall we invite them to our party?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We invite somebody to an event like party, meeting, conference, concert etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I invited him to my party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We invite somebody for dinner, lunch, tea etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s invite Shyam for dinner. (NOT Let\u2019s invite Shyam to dinner.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The phrase <strong>How about\u2026?<\/strong> is also used to make suggestions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How about inviting John to the party?<\/li>\n<li>How about taking a short break?<\/li>\n<li>How about sending him a text message?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying what you want to do When you are talking to friends or colleagues, you will often need to be able to talk about what you would like to do. Use I\u2019d like to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}