Hello,
Could you correct my sentences, please? I need to make sure my corrections are right.
1.How can I ever repay you for your help/ helping me?
2.Please accept my thanks for your help/helping me.
3.I really can't thank you enough for your help/helping me.
4.Thanks for taking the time to talk/ to talking/talking to me.(Only 'to talk' is correct)
5.Thanks for taking the time for the talk.:
6.Thanks for taking the time for talking to me.
I am not sure, but I think in the sentences #1, 2, 3 both versions are possible.
Thanks
thanks for taking the time to talk to me
(take the time to do something)
1.How can I ever repay you for your help?
How can I ever repay you foryourhelping me?
2.Please accept my thanks for your help.
Please accept my thanks foryourhelping me.
3.I really can't thank you enough for your help.
I really can't thank you enough foryourhelping me.
4.Thanks for taking the time to talk/ to talking/talkingto me.(Only 'to talk' is correct)
5.Thanks for taking the time for the talk. Just about possible if 'the talk' refers to a lecture.
6.Thanks for taking the timefor talkingto talk to me.
Last edited by 5jj; 31-Oct-2011 at 19:35.
bhaisahab posted at the same time as I did.
He feels that the 'your helping me' versions are possible in the first three. I think the 'your' is unnatural, but I am not sure that I would actually go as far as to say they are incorrect.
Last edited by 5jj; 01-Nov-2011 at 09:05. Reason: typo - lower-case 'i'!
5.Thanks for taking the time for the talk. Just about possible if 'the talk' refers to a lecture.
In what other cases can I use the constuction; To take the time for something?'
Eg., Thanks for taking the time for your call. Would it be correct?
Thanks
"Thanks for taking the time for your call" is not correct, no.
Thanks for taking the time to call.
Thanks for your call.
Thanks for taking the time to call me.
As was said, "Thanks for taking the time for the talk" is only just about possible, but it's not very natural. The following would be better:
"Thanks for taking the time to give the talk" if you're speaking to the person who gave the speech.
"Thanks for taking the time to come to the talk" if you're speaking to someone who attended the talk.