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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
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00(b) John's father is helping his son to do homework. (That means father does the homework, right?)02br
00(c) John's father is helping his son to finish homework. ( Does his father help to do? or his father dose it?) 0-
  

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0Hi,02br
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00If I help you to do something, we do it together.02br
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0To the question, I think it is better use " with " , help somebody with something, 02br
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00for instant, Chis is helping Tom with his homework. That means obviously Chis give a hand to Tom, when Tom is doing his homework.02br
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00But in the above sentences. It is kind of confuse to me. Should we use him or his son.02br
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0Oh, very good observation! I didn't notice that at all.02br
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00"John's father is helping his son" does sound like it could be a grandfather helping a grandson, with "his" referring to "John." I suppose it's even possible that John's father is helping John's brother - 01i00his 02i00referring to the father. 02br
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00If JOHN is
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0Did your guys, native speaker say something like that?02br
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00Sometimes, when I was reading a book talking about something like he is helping him with her thing. too many pronouns confuse me.0-
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0 Does it mean all correct?02br
00(a) John's father is helping his son.02br
00(b) John's father is helping his son to do homework. 02br
00(c) John's father is helping his son to finish homework.02br
00(d) John's father is helping his son to complete homework.0-
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0Hi ChinsonTan,02br
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00When speaking in natural conversation, our understanding of how the world works will usually over-ride any grammatical mistakes or ambiguities.02br
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00In fact, in real life, it's very normal for a father to help his own son. So when we read something quickly, that's what we "see," regardless of what it really says. When speak
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01cite10Vincent Teo12cite10 Does it mean all correct? 12br
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10(a) John's father is helping his son.12br
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10(b) John's father is helping his son to do homework. 12br
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10(c) John's father is helping his son to finish homework.12br
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10(d) John's father
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0I got it. thank you very much. just because pronouns are more used in english, a lot more than chinese, and that sometimes cost me time to understand who is who. haha0-
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