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Can you help please
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Pretty3
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Can you help please
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Hi,
Is this sentence correct:
If I see my friend needing help , I will help her?
Thank you
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9 Sep 2019
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cunliffe
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If I see my friend needing help, I will help her. Yes, that sentence is fine. Just to add, it�s nothing to do with the future tense; it�s just describing a state of affairs.
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9 Sep 2019
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douglas
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You could also use present simple: "If I see my friend needing help, I help her." In this form you are simply stating a fact, in the other form (will future/first conditional) you are looking towards the future and what will/might happen. Cheers, Douglas |
10 Sep 2019
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cunliffe
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Douglas is right and there are other ways of expressing this thought. Just to quibble, though, I didn�t take that particular �will� as future, I took it as �whenever my friend needs help, I help her� or, in the way he has rephrased it. I think that both are fine and actually, mean the same thing. However, I see that it can be construed as a simple future. Another however (!), if that�s the intended meaning, it would be better to use the conditional, �if I saw my friend needing help, I would help her�. Interesting. |
10 Sep 2019
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yanogator
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Lynne and Douglas are both right, but Douglas is using the first conditional (If I see my friend needing help, I will help her", while Lynne�s is the second conditional (If I saw my friend needing help, I would help her). Lynne also gave an example of the zero conditional with "Whenever my friend needs help, I help her", using whenever in place of if. Bruce |
10 Sep 2019
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