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In human hearing, subtle differences

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nonameee
 Post subject: Re: In human hearing, subtle differences
 Post Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:43 am 
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Could some of our experts comment on this: help to do smth VS help do smth?

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Help to do something would be someone giving you all the tools to complete a task but not working with you to complete it; while help doing something is a person working with you to complete a task hope this helped.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 845AAkO09E


Can this be applied to our case?
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: In human hearing, subtle differences
 Post Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:27 am 
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nonameee wrote:
Can this be applied to our case?


haha, yahoo answers -- possibly the least authoritative source on the entire internet.

if you try to apply this "rule" here, then you'll eliminate the correct answer (because the differences in sound "provide the necessary tools", but clearly don't actually do the job of hearing). so, no.

i don't think there's a meaningful distinction between "help PERSON VERB" and "help PERSON to VERB"; i think they're pretty much identical.
the latter one, though, could be helpful in longer sentences -- which may be unreadable without the extra "to".
here's an example:
last night i helped my daughter, who had stayed up until 3am for the previous four nights, to finish her science project.
try writing this sentence without the "to" -- it basically becomes unreadable.
in shorter sentences, on the other hand, the shorter version (the one without the extra "to") is more elegant.
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nonameee
 Post subject: Re: In human hearing, subtle differences
 Post Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:41 pm 
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Thank you.
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RonPurewal
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 Post Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:07 pm 
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you're welcome.
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