help me on these words

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The first of each pair is relatively gentle and private; the second of each pair is more extreme and public.

Studying for the SAT, Neo?

Neoquixote The correct way of stating your question would be:

"Help me with these words."

Neoquixote- The correct way of stating your question would be:

"Help me with these words."

I dunno, Phoenix-- googling gives me:

'I need help with this' - 6030 pages
'I need help on this' - 2550 pages

Looks like 'on' is a close second. 'I need help on this project'-- which I often hear-- is the phrase that twigged me to the possiblility.

"help me on these words"- I dunno. That it not the same as "I need help on this". When I saw the way it was expressed, I immediately perceived the writer as a non-English speaker.

BTW "help me on these words" elicited 1 hit on google!

"help me with these words" elicited 70, for whatever that's worth!

MM, I am in awe of your erudition and English is my second language so I'm not fluent with grammar . Question

In your example help is a noun and Quix used help as a verb.
Also your example has the object as singular and in Q's it is plural. Wouldn't that govern the usage?

I don't think so. I chose equivalent phrases for comparison that I felt were more universal and so would elicit more hits-- witness how few hits Phoenix got.

You do have a point, and it would certainly influence the google results, but I doubt (he said, VERY offhandedly) that it leads to a different conclusion. Mine was a merely statistical ploy, not a grammatical one-- I hope.

point taken

thank all you guys.
as to the title, now i realize that "with" is more desirable than "on". but i do not think ON is illegitimate, maybe help ...with... is more popular than help... on... when they refers to that same meaning.

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no, but GRE, Mica.

A perspicacious conclusion, Neo, and a rewarding one for us advisors. Good luck on the GRE. (You'd better start capitalizing your 'i's if you want to do well in graduate school though-- lower-case ones don't look so good in theses.)

thanks enough Mica, I would try as possible as i can to perform better.