{"id":73186,"date":"2020-03-21T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73186"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:50:03","slug":"making-suggestions-in-english-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/making-suggestions-in-english-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Suggestions In English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some common expressions we can use to make suggestions in English.<\/p>\n<h3>Why not\u2026?<\/h3>\n<p>One way of making suggestions is to use the phrase Why not\u2026?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Susie is really angry with me.\u2019 \u2018Why not send her some flowers?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Sally is in the hospital.\u2019 \u2018Why not go and see her?\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why don\u2019t\u2026? can be used in the same way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why don\u2019t you send her some flowers?<\/li>\n<li>Why don\u2019t we go and see Sally?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why + verb can be used to suggest that an action is pointless.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why ask him? He\u2019s not going to help you.<\/li>\n<li>Why argue with him? He\u2019s not going to change his mind.<\/li>\n<li>Why wait for her? She\u2019s not going to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Let\u2019s\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Use let\u2019s to make a polite suggestion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s buy something to eat.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s go for a walk.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s do it later.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s wait a bit longer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can make these suggestions sound more polite by adding the question tag Shall we\u2026?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s invite Andrew, shall we?<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s take a break, shall we?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Shall we \/ Shall I\u2026?<\/h3>\n<p>Use shall we to see if other people agree with you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shall we go and see Julie?<\/li>\n<li>Shall I get you something to drink?<\/li>\n<li>Shall we ask his opinion?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some common expressions we can use to make suggestions in English. Why not\u2026? One way of making suggestions is to use the phrase Why not\u2026? \u2018Susie is really angry with me.\u2019 \u2018Why&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[189,2072,2081],"class_list":["post-73186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking","tag-english-speaking-skills","tag-making-suggestions-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73187,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186\/revisions\/73187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}