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Old 03-Jul-2007, 21:20
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Default Re: Shall or Will?

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Originally Posted by riverkid View Post
Would I help you..."-- polite

This isn't a polite form, Sheena, it's a conditional statement. We don't use 'would' in this form with 'I' unless we want to make the conditional statement I mentioned above.

A: Help me, okay?

B: Would I help you, hmmmmm, if you were to pay me I might.

To make an equivalent polite question to "Could I help you?", we use,

Would you like some help?

Would you like me to help you?

[probably some others]
Hi Riverkid

Yes, you are right
My intention was to say : Would you like me to help you ? I made a mistake and I am sorry.
Thank you for your intervention.

Note : I changed my former username [sheena55ro] into this one.

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