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Asking For Help

The document provides expressions and phrases for asking for help, offering help, and responding to offers of help. It includes lists of polite ways to ask for assistance, such as "Can you give me a hand with this?" and to offer help, like "May I help you?". Responses for accepting help include "Yes, please" while declining assistance involves phrases such as "No thanks, I can manage." The document aims to suggest polite language for requesting, providing, and responding to offers of assistance from others.

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Asking For Help

The document provides expressions and phrases for asking for help, offering help, and responding to offers of help. It includes lists of polite ways to ask for assistance, such as "Can you give me a hand with this?" and to offer help, like "May I help you?". Responses for accepting help include "Yes, please" while declining assistance involves phrases such as "No thanks, I can manage." The document aims to suggest polite language for requesting, providing, and responding to offers of assistance from others.

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Asking for help

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We all need help sometimes.
commonly, it is not polite to ask
directly. So there are many
phrases that we can say before
a request to 'soften' it.

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Expressions asking help:
 Can you give me a hand with this?
 Could you help me for a second?
 Can I ask a favor?
 I wonder if you could help me with this?
 I could do with some help, please.
 I can't manage. Can you help?
 Give me a hand with this, will you?
 Lend me a hand with this, will you?
 Could you spare a moment?
 I need some help, please.

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Responses for
Accepting for Help:
× Okay
× Yes, I can. 
× Okay, No problem. 
× Sure 
× Certainly 
× No Problem

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Responses for
Declining for Help
× I'm sorry, I Can’t
× Sorry, I can't do it. 
× Sorry, I’m busy
× You better manage it on your own. 
× I'm afraid I can't do it 

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Offering help
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Expressions of offering help:
× May I help you?
× Would you like to help me? 
× Could you pass the salt over there, please? 
× Would you like to come to my house?
× Would you mind if I sit here? 
× Open the window, please. 
× Could you please move to another chair? 
× Would you like a cup of coffee?
× Could you please tell me where is the library? 
× Would you like to take the garbage outside please? 
× May I give you a hand? 
× Shall I bring you a pillow? 

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Accepting help
× Thank you. 
× Yes, please. 
× I'd like it very much. 
× I'm pleased to do that. 
× With Pleasure thank you. 
× Yes please. I really appreciate it. 
× Thank you, it's very kind of you 
× Yes, please, that would be lovely

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Declining help
× No thanks.
× I can't, thanks anyway
× No, I really won't, thank you 
× It's okay, I can do it.
× No thank you. 
× No thanks, I don't need any help 
× Don't worry, I will do it myself. 
× That's alright, I will manage it on my
own

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Link for examples of conversation

Asking for help

https://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/employment/empl
oyment11.htm

offering help
https://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/employment/empl
oyment10.htm

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