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Thu 20 Jan, 2011 10:27 pm
1) If you're good at French, please give me the hand.
2) If you're good at French, please give me a hand.
I think both sentences are correct. Am I on the right track?
@oristarA,
i'd give the finger to 1)
@oristarA,
To "give a hand" is the correct choice, it's a well worn phrase. Give
the hand is not common usage. "Give the finger" means something else entirely.
@laughoutlood,
laughoutlood wrote:
i'd give the finger to 1)
What? Are you telling me 1) is correct in grammar and proper in sense?
Please?
@oristarA,
No, it's not.
"Give a hand" is common usage, also "lend a hand".
"Give the finger to" is a reference to an obscene gesture. (And not helpful in these circumstances.)
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