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"Do you have nobody else to help you?"
Is the sentence of mine correct if I am expressing astonishment at the absence of a helper.
 
Don't you have anybody else to help you?
 
You're trying to learn how to use 'nothing/nobody/nowhere', right?
 
"Do you have nobody else to help you?"
Is the sentence of mine correct if I am expressing astonishment at the absence of a helper.
It's OK if you're expressing astonishment at the absence of a second suggested helper. The inclusion of the word "else" suggests that someone has already been asked and has refused to help or that the speaker doesn't want to it and is suggesting the person ask someone else.

To express astonishment simply at the absence of a helper, it would just be "Do you have nobody to help you?" or, more naturally, "Don't you have anyone to help you?"
 
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