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Originally Posted by sanny Thanks MikeNewYork. I always try to make the best of my sentences, but it's still hard. But you said: "helpful for finding things", and I want to know why it's not "helpful to find things" :? |
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Originally Posted by sanny I think you could go to 'google' that's a helping hand to find things you want information about. |
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Originally Posted by mike That site is very helpful for finding things. |
helpful (to X) for Y reasons e.g, "Google is helpful (to people) for these reasons"
Note, I think you could go to 'google'...
==> Try,
You might want to try 'google'. In speaking, saying, "I think you could", with intonantion marking a polite suggestion, is fine; it's polite; But, in writing, there is no intonantion, and so the reader might take the words "
I think you could" (i.e, I know you have the ability) as patronizing or condescending.
Note, "...you could go to 'google'
that's...."
==> Try, "You could go to 'google'
. That's..." There are two subjects (You/That) and two verbs (could go/is) so there should be some puncutation to show the reader where one sentences ends and the other begins.
Note, "That's
a helping hand to find things"
==> Try, "That (Going to 'google') is
a helpful way of /
helpful for finding things". Remember that "helpful" has the following structure: helpful to X for Y.
All the best,