Help do, help to do ili help doing u engleskom jeziku

U engleskom jeziku možemo koristiti i konstrukciju „help someone do something“ i konstrukciju „help someone to do something“. Oblik bez „to“ je češći u svakodnevnom govoru nego oblik s „to“ (posebno u američkom engleskom), ali oba oblika se često koriste u pisanju:

He helped me move to London. (more common)

He helped me to move to London. (less common when speaking)

Neki studenti pokušavaju kombinirati oblik s nastavkom -ing, koji nalazimo u drugim frazama s glagolom „help“, ali to nažalost nije ispravno:

He helped me (to) move to London.

He helped me moving to London.

Postoji, međutim, jedna neformalna fraza u kojoj zaista koristimo „help doing“, konkretno „cannot help doing“. Ako netko „cannot help doing something“, ne može potisnuti potrebu da to učini. Na primjer:

I can't help thinking about her constantly = Moram na nju neprestano misliti. Ne mogu prestati misliti na nju.

Ovaj idiom znači isto što i „cannot help but do“ – možemo također reći „I cannot help but think about her constantly“.

Nekoliko dodatnih primjera ispravne upotrebe:

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1.	Introduction
2.	“Lie in bed” or “lay in bed”
3.	“Information is” vs. “informations are” – plural or singular
4.	(An) information – is there an article?
5.	“News is” or “news are” – problematic words ending with an “s”
6.	So, thus, therefore, and hence
7.	“At school” vs. “in school”
8.	“In office” vs. “in the office” vs. “at the office”
9.	“Help do” vs. “help to do” vs. “help doing”
10.	“In the picture” vs. “on the picture”
11.	“Half five”, “half seven”, “half ten” etc. in British English
12.	“Prefer to” or “prefer over”
13.	“Arrive to” vs. “arrive in” vs. “arrive at”
14.	Each other's vs. each others'
15.	Difference between “cemetery” and “graveyard”

1.	Introduction
2.	“Lie in bed” or “lay in bed”
3.	“Information is” vs. “informations are” – plural or singular
4.	(An) information – is there an article?
5.	“News is” or “news are” – problematic words ending with an “s”
6.	So, thus, therefore, and hence
7.	“At school” vs. “in school”
8.	“In office” vs. “in the office” vs. “at the office”
9.	“Help do” vs. “help to do” vs. “help doing”
10.	“In the picture” vs. “on the picture”
11.	“Half five”, “half seven”, “half ten” etc. in British English
12.	“Prefer to” or “prefer over”
13.	“Arrive to” vs. “arrive in” vs. “arrive at”
14.	Each other's vs. each others'
15.	Difference between “cemetery” and “graveyard”