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Old 10-Sep-2007, 02:56
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Question Grammar Help!

I helped my wife to do her homework
I helped my wife to homework
I helped my wife with her home work

Are all those sentences above correct? If there's something wrong please explain it . . . .



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Old 10-Sep-2007, 04:09
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*I helped my wife to do her homework - with the verb "to help" you usually use the bare infinitive (that is, you leave out the "to") so you would have I helped my wife DO her homework.

*I helped my wife to homework - "homework" is not a verb, and if it were, you would omit the "to" as I said above.

I helped my wife with her homework - this is fine, except make "homework" one word.

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Old 10-Sep-2007, 04:36
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Goody day Barb_D!


Thanks a lot for the explaination and the time you allotted as well.

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