If they simply don't want to help they can just decline without a reason. So I would always use "Can you help me with this" or "Could you help me with this" unless I needed a more specific case (such as I KNOW that they CAN, but I am forcing to answer whether they WILL or not, or I know that they are ABLE, but maybe their mother won't let them*).

2019年10月24日 · Can you help me with that? X with Y has a lot of meanings. One meaning is "uses Y in doing/achieving/obtaining X". So you can think of this as meaning "Can you help me to use/do/get that?" Can you help me on that? X on Y has a lot of meanings. One meaning is to say Y is a topic, when X is a conversation or other event where information is ...

2014年2月27日 · To my surprise, I found a similar conclusion in COCA, could you please help me: 6 hits, could you help me please: 0 hit, could you help me , please: 0 hit, please could you help me: 0 hit, please , could you help me: 4 hits, can you please help me: 5 hits, can you help me , please: 3 hits, can you help me please: 1 hit. –

2011年7月4日 · Can you help me understand this? (Pointing at lumpy pancake batter) ‘well you put your milk in too soon. Should have mixed the eggs first. That’s why this is so lumpy!’ (Focus is on ‘this’ - the batter) Can you help me understand this? (Pointing at rough edge of marble bevel) ‘well you’ve got your chisel at the wrong angle!

2015年2月7日 · You can use would or could after you (see below). If you do not use would or could, then you use the past participle (past form of the verb), like helped in the last example below. Here are some correct expressions: I would be [very] grateful if you could help me practice English. I would be [very] grateful if you would help me carry this piano ...

2015年12月17日 · Help me learn. Help me to learn. It all depends on the verb and how frequently it is being used. For the verb “learn” the most common way to say is “help to learn” and also for the verb “do” the most widely spoken form is “help do something”.

Bryan A. Garner writes the better usage is to use bare infinitive after help, while Pam Peter says the preference of to-infinitive in BrE is because of their conservatism but this practice is changing. Some pattern with help from Google’s Ngram viewer. For the help + (to) learn. For the help + (to) do. For the help + (to) dig

2013年3月10日 · If taken literally, "Can you" is equivalent to asking the person if they're capable of doing something. "Could you", on the other hand, implies that the action can be completed under some circumstances by the person. The usage of can you is idiomatic, and hence, is more popular used phrase of the two. Using either of them doesn't make them ...

A long time ago, I seemed to know the answer. It has something to do with the role of the noun after the pronoun plays. For example, when we say “it’s kind of you to help me,” we are saying we think you are kind, but when we say “it’s important for you to do homework,” we are saying you need to do homework.

Would it be possible for you to help me with this? I felt a bit awkward after sending the mail. Should it be would or will? I know that would is a past form of will but it is also used to indicate politeness. In this case, it was extremely important for me to sound polite and formal. Please advise regarding the correct usage.