Timeline for 'Suggest helping' vs 'Offer to help' - in reported speech
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 19, 2015 at 1:35 | vote | accept | doquan0 | ||
| Jul 18, 2015 at 23:10 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @DJM - It might be a regionalism; it's found in plenty of books. Here's one: "Anyway,” said Selina, “we could have got her to help with the washing-up. There's an awful stack of it tonight." The author (Xavier Herbert) is Australian. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 22:08 | answer | added | videoartifex | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 21:58 | answer | added | videoartifex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 18:54 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 18:03 | comment | added | AdrianHHH | C could also be interpreted as "John suggested that James helped Jane with ..." | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | Really they're all awkward. "The washing-up" sounds strange to me. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | I agree with @DamkerngT. Answer C does a good job of capturing the meaning of the original quote, but it's not written in good English. It should say something like, "John suggested that he could help Jane with the washing-up." | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:43 | history | edited | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | C is awkward. He suggested helping Jane, to whom? | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | user3169 | Did you find a dictionary definition of suggest that would fit the intent of the key sentence? You should add that info. to your question. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 16:19 | history | asked | doquan0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |