'a surprise present' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe a present that was given as a surprise. For example: "My parents gave me a surprise present for my birthday."
Just in time for Christmas, there's a surprise present for consumers: plummeting oil prices.
Then I'll forget all about it; it's like a surprise present to myself.
But when a surprise present of a World Playground CD somehow slipped past me, I became a children's music convert.
By James Surowiecki Just in time for Christmas, there's a surprise present for consumers: plummeting oil prices.
There were several antique Nantucket baskets in Mr. Hilbert's room in the Carpenter's guest house, and he determined to make them a basket as a "surprise" present, he said.
"It's… "Is the traffic I endured just because the Cambridges are here, or is it just life's like that?" Alastair Bruce asked, as he settled in… Just in time for Christmas, there's a surprise present for consumers: plummeting oil prices.
#Banksy has left a half-term surprise "present" on the walls of a Bristol primary school.
Ben Younger's "Boiler Room," a nice surprise, presents as good a case as any against taking stock tips from 20-something hustlers.
For example, a child learns that when you've made a surprise birthday present for Mummy, you don't tell her about it and when your aunt gives you a present you should thank her, even if it's horrible.
So, is Royal Bank of Scotland planning to hand 50 of its former and current staff a surprise Christmas "present"?
Judi Dench has just unveiled her first tattoo – at the age of 81 – a surprise birthday present from her daughter.
