English help (native speakers)

>>18284990
Thank you, just need more feedback.
cost is both countable and uncountable.

>>18284984
It's not a well-formulated question. Both 2 and 3 are correct. "Costs" is often left plural because sometimes there's more than one type of expense incurred by the shipping process (you can see the same thing with the word 'expense' itself, as in: "I incurred significant expenses ..."), and the lack of the definite article ('the') is extremely common in contexts like this and doesn't make the sentence wrong.

"The shopping cost" is not wrong, either. Both are in common usage.

1 of course is wrong.

>>18284992
it's no. 2 mate.
ffs.

>>18284993
Yea I was wrestling with 2 and 3 for a while. 2 seemed appropriate if the offer was one that was reoccurring or had many parts. 3 would be correct if it was a single transaction. I decided on 2 because it seems more common in speech to says costs.

>>18284992
what are you asking exactly?

>>18284999
Just need it for a university project (Im not a native speaker).
It's a popup to send an offer, as a placeholder in the textfield Im writing it should include the shipping cost/costs.

everybody seem to go on 2. Even if most major sites actually use 1 because as I said before it's both countable and uncountable.
To me 2 sounds the best.

>>18284999
2 is more common. If you're trying to figure out how to word this for your own usage, then go with that one.

If this is a homework problem that you're working on, tell your professor "Both 2 and 3 are in reasonably common usage, and neither is wrong. It's a bad question."

>>18285006
I will go with two, thank you.

>>18285006
The offer must include shipping costs.
Shipping costs will not be added at checkout.

Final. All good?

>>18285012
looks good to me

>>18285012
Yep. That's great.

>>18285004
FWIW, 1 is just wrong. It either needs to be plural or you need the definite article.

>>18285018
Thank you.
>>18285030
Same thing I thought about. Thank you so much.

>>18284984
English teacher here

All are equally acceptable in business English (which is sometimes brusquer than conventional, and can drop words like "the".

The second is better from a business sense, since it makes clear that you want ALL costs (packing, shipping, customs, whatever) included. The others, with the singular, could (though it's unlikely) let the sender add everything but postage separately.

>>18285043
Thank you so much.

>>18285043
what grade do you teach?

>>18285043
Op here again...
This time is the message center:

1.Conversation list currently empty.

2.Conversations list currently empty.

Im leaning toward 1. I know it might seem weird to ask such small questions. Just, it's my first assignment in the US.

>>18285055
bump

>>18285055
number 1

>>18285088
thank you.