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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

By or with, meaning 'with the help of'

Hi, all,

I have a statement: '...to do smth. with the help of employees'. Which one can replace 'with the help': 'with' or 'by' ? I know, if it's a tool, I can use 'with'. I use 'by' in passive voice, eg. '...done by employees'.

How do I say correctly, in the case when employees are pretty much a main tool rather than the help?

Thanks
  

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I don't completely understand your statement in " 's. to do smth. with the help of employees'' Can you post the whole sentence?

— PureGuava

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I don't completely understand your statement in " 's.

'...to do smth. with the help of employees''

Can you post the whole sentence?
Also, what is "smth."?
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"This will be done with employees" makes them sound like slaves.
"By" is the better choice, in my opinion.

All of your examples are in passive voice.

I'm not sure that "with the help of" is really what you want to replace. You suggest that the employees are going to do ALL the work, not just help with it.

So the process is "labor intensive," and very little automat
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PureGuava what is "smth."?
Hi, Guava,
Learners frequently abreviate "somebody" and "something" in expressing grammatical structures as a sort of formula.
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With the help of our employees, or With the help of the employees. Things been done by the employees. Hope this helps.
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