Blasted foreigners asking questions about English

[xoggoth]

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[BrilloPad]

Just been asked by a colleague:

Is it "the advice you've given is helpful for us" or "the advice you've given is helpful to us"

I think the former is better. helpful for <noun> and helpful to <verb>.

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or you could say "the advice gives plenty much helpfulness"

[tim123]

what's wrong with:

"the advice you've given is helpful"

tim

[Francko]

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or you could say "the advice gives plenty much helpfulness"

"Much cheapness, plenty of helpfulness"

[OwlHoot]

I have recently done a test like this and did 70 out of 80. However I am quite sure that most of you would have scored even less (with peaks like Milan who wouldn't guess a single one perhaps).

troughs (or dips, or dipsticks)

[bobhope]

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or you could say "the advice gives plenty much helpfulness"

with much cheapness too.


to - sounds instinctively right.

however

"that was helpful for me" sounds the same as "that was helpful to me"

[EternalOptimist]

with much cheapness too.


to - sounds instinctively right.

however

"that was helpful for me" sounds the same as "that was helpful to me"

nonsense.
imagine you are having an S&M session with Lilly Allen , and as you are spanking her with a hair brush, her chains get all tangled up. You untangle them, clearly she would say "that was helpful for me" NOT "that was helpful to me"


I rest my case