--- title: Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free,… # Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles Lesson 12 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/0/) — Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means two for the price of one. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/1/) — An offer only saves money if you would use everything: shampoo at £3 a bottle on 3 for 2 costs £6 for three, which is £2 a bottle, but if you only need one, the offer makes you spend £3 more. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/2/) — Some "deals" are not deals at all: cereal at £2.40 a box costs £4.80 for two, so a "2 for £5" sign makes you pay 20p more, and shops count on people not checking. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/3/) — Before you grab an offer, do the sum: what would I pay normally, what do I pay with the offer, and do I really need all of it? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/4/) — "3 for 2" means you get 3 items but pay for only 2. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/6/) — An offer saves money only if you need everything and use it before it goes off. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/7/) — A use-by date is the last day food is safe to eat. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/8/) — Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do the sum. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/9/) — Half price means you pay half: divide the price by 2. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/10/) — Bigger packs are often cheaper for each item, but you spend more in total. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/11/) — A loyalty card gives you a reward, like a free drink, for coming back often; it only helps if you would shop there anyway. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/13/) — A bundle is two or more things sold together for less than buying them one by one. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/14/) — Percent (%) means "out of 100"; 20% extra on a 100 g bag is 20 g more. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/15/) — A "was" price only shows a real saving if the old price was really charged for a good while. - ← previous: [Prices and change at the till](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/) - next →: [Unit prices and sales that are not really sales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)