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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #1 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:36 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

Hi

This will help you to record all the details required by law.
Right pensions and insurance policies can help you protect your business against … bla-bla-bla

To-infinitive or bare infinitive - which is 'more grammatical'?

(Not to mention here and now 'help you with' <noun(s)>) :)
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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #2 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:45 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

Hi Tamara,

Both forms are acceptable with 'help' but note: let you go (No to) but allow you to go (Always to)

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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #3 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:54 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

Aha… both...
Thanks, Alan!

I'd say, to-infinitive sounds (to me) a bit more natural in most 'help-offer' cases.
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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #4 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 13:59 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

(In the case of "help + to + do" vs "help + do" I've always thought this was primarily one of those BE vs AmE situations.) :D
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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #5 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 17:45 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

Amy, I have noticed that you prefer to write British English in its short form as BE, while Alan likes to write it as BrE.I wonder whether this one has to do something with those American and British differences?! :roll:

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This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]? #6 (permalink) Wed Oct 18, 2006 18:03 pm   This will help you + [to-infinitive or bare infinitive]?
 

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You never know, Tom... My writing BE instead of BrE might just be a typo, attributable to regular hunt and peck difficulties. Or it might not be. 8)

I have to admit, I've also seen "American English" shortened to AE... But that's actually more problematic since AE could also mean "Australian English"... :shock:

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Englishes again :) #7 (permalink) Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:45 am   Englishes again :)
 

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Amy, Wikipedia insists on AuE for Australian English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English

By the way, about Englishes, again. Sorry for the off-topic :)
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Dialects of English

British Isles British English | East Anglian English | English English | Estuary English | Hiberno-English (Ireland) | Highland English | Manx English | Mid Ulster English | Midlands English | Northern English | Received Pronunciation | Scottish English | Welsh English | West Country dialects

United States American English | African American Vernacular English | Appalachian English | Baltimorese | Boston English | California English | Chicano English | General American | Hawaiian Pidgin English | Maine-New Hampshire English | New York-New Jersey English | North Central American English | Inland Northern American English | Pacific Northwest English | Pittsburgh English | Southern American English | Utah English | Yooper

Canada Canadian English | West/Central Canadian English | Maritimer English | Newfoundland English | Quebec English

Oceania Australian English | New Zealand English | Australian Aboriginal English

Asia Hong Kong English | Indian English | Malaysian English | Burmese English | Philippine English | Singaporean English | Sri Lankan English

Other countries Bermudian English | Caribbean English | Jamaican English | Liberian English | Malawian English | South African English

Miscellaneous Basic English | Commonwealth English | Euro-English | Globish | International English | Llanito (Gibraltar) | Mid-Atlantic English | North American English | Plain English | Simplified English | Special English | Standard English


Especially I like the division on British English (BrE) and English English (EngEng :) )
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