offered me a lot of money

[navi tasan]

Are the sentences 1-3 correct with the given meanings?

1) He offered a lot of money to get the manuscript for him.
2) He offered a lot of money for getting the manuscript for him.
Meaning: He said he'd give a lot of money to whoever got the manuscript for him.
3) He offered me a lot of money for getting the manuscript for him.
Meaning: He said he'd give me a lot of money if I got the manuscript for him.

 

[Tarheel]

Try:

He offered me a lot of money to get the manuscript for him.

 

[tedmc]

"Offer" is a transitive verb.

 

[Piscean]

"Offer" is a transitive verb.

How is that relevant?

 

[jutfrank]

Very often, asking whether a sentence is correct is just not good enough.

Perhaps you're asking something related to the differences between using to-infinitive and for -ing. Or perhaps you're asking something about patterns of use of the verb 'offer'. Which is it?

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you all very much,

I wanted to know if one could use 'offer' without an indirect object (that is the case of sentence 1 and sentence 2) and also if offer could be used with the gerund and with an indirect object (sentence 3).

 

[jutfrank]

I wanted to know if one could use 'offer' without an indirect object (that is the case of sentence 1 and sentence 2) and also if offer could be used with the gerund and with an indirect object (sentence 3).

So why didn't you ask that?

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you very much, Jutfrank,

My apologies. I thought I was simplifying things when I was making them more complicated. I thought 'concrete' examples would be easier to evaluate without them being attached to grammatical concepts. From now on. I will try to include both in my questions. Sorry.