dilodi83
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- Joined
- Aug 27, 2006
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- Native Language
- Italian
- Home Country
- Italy
- Current Location
- Italy
1) Jerry is the restaurant's main cook and Tanya backs him up/helps him out when there are plenty of people.
2) Sonja said she would back me up/help me out if I complained about the new fill-in at work.
3) Would you mind backing me up/helping me out? I need a hundred bucks within next weekend.
4) We had a lot of work to do, so Maria helped me out/backed me up.
In these kind of sentences both verbs mean: to lend a hand, to give help to someone.
When these two verbs mean "to give a hand to someone", can they be used without distinction? Or are there any specific collocations to use with "back up" and others with "help out"?
2) Sonja said she would back me up/help me out if I complained about the new fill-in at work.
3) Would you mind backing me up/helping me out? I need a hundred bucks within next weekend.
4) We had a lot of work to do, so Maria helped me out/backed me up.
In these kind of sentences both verbs mean: to lend a hand, to give help to someone.
When these two verbs mean "to give a hand to someone", can they be used without distinction? Or are there any specific collocations to use with "back up" and others with "help out"?