Please help save a child.

Jackson6612Are the given sentences correct? The sentence without to doesn't feel natural to me.

Please help to save a child.
Please help save a child.

'to' is optional. It is often left out.

Please help save the child. (Shouldn't it be 'the' rather than 'a'?)

Yoong Liat

Jackson6612Are the given sentences correct? The sentence without to doesn't feel natural to me.

Please help to save a child.
Please help save a child.

'to' is optional. It is often left out.

Please help save the child. (Shouldn't it be 'the' rather than 'a'?)

Yoong LiatAre the given sentences correct? The sentence without to doesn't feel natural to me.

Please help to save a child.
Please help save a child.

'to' is optional. It is often left out.

Please help save the child. (Shouldn't it be 'the' rather than 'a'?)

I don't know. Using a can s

Please help to save a child. (To me, though grammatically correct, the sentence doesn't work with 'a'.)

Please help to save the child. (eg. from drowning)

It's my opinion. Maybe a native speaker can confirm whether what I say makes sense.

Hi

Save the child = save a specific child - we know which child will be saved.

Save a child = save any child who is in need of saving.

There are two charities in the UK

Save the children
and
Save a child

Hi Optilang

Good clarification.