Timeline for What is the correct way to use infinitive after the verb "help": with or without "to"?
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 21:10 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | How about "He was helped read the blackboard by having a new pair of glasses"? Incidentally, I think TRiG has got it the wrong way round with the RD citation above, and they are certainly only mentioning some authors' preferences, without themselves endorsing them. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 14:57 | comment | added | Marthaª | "The glasses helped him read the blackboard" vs. "The glasses helped him to read the blackboard" -- inanimate object or no, I still prefer the version without "to". | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 11:21 | history | answered | TRiG | CC BY-SA 2.5 |