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Grammar Nazis Welcome - Hazzy - 2010-01-13
"I can help you to the best of my abilities with any issues you have."
"I can help you with any issues you have to the best of my abilities."
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How2word this?
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Greg - 2010-01-13
There's something wrong with the first sentence, but I don't know how to explain it. RDal can tell you.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Spideyjvc - 2010-01-13
"If can help I to best the of you're ability two"
Grammar Nazis Welcome - KaidaTan - 2010-01-13
I *think* the second one is right.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Spideyjvc - 2010-01-13
Seriously speaking, the first one lacks commas.
They're both correct, so long as you fix that mistake in the first one. The second choice has better wording though, so I'd stick with that.
Edit- Wait, second one may need a comma in there as well. It flows naturally off the tongue without pause, but I believe that pause is needed in there for this case.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - madanthony - 2010-01-13
I kind of want to stick a comma or semicolon into the 2nd one.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - FelixTM - 2010-01-13
madanthony Wrote:I kind of want to stick a comma or semicolon into the 2nd one.
No place you could stick a semicolon in. Semicolons can only divide two complete sentences.
I can help you, to the best of my abilities, with any issues you have.
I can help you with any issues you have, to the best of my abilities.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Russt - 2010-01-13
To the best of my abilities, I can help you with any issues you have.
Both "to the best of my abilities" and "with any issues you have" modify "I can help you," so I'd choose to have both of them adjacent to what you're talking about. The actual order doesn't really matter, though, so the other two aren't technically wrong.
Edit: Personally, though, I'd reword it a bit. "If you have any issues, I can help you to the best of my abilities" or something such. None of the original rearrangements seem to really click for me.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - FelixTM - 2010-01-13
Russt Wrote:To the best of my abilities, I can help you with any issues you have.
It's the same thing as having it at the end in this case. I see "to the best of my abilities" as nonessential to this sentence, so it needs to be set apart in some form. I guess it depends on how important Hazzy views it.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - ieat2much - 2010-01-25
Nevur mind?
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Rob - 2010-01-25
ieat2much Wrote:Sorry I still need to get my inglish mastury tuh levul tirty. tis wut i get:
Have issues? I can help. Any; to "you" abilties best of the with.
Bumping a 2 weeks old thread only to say that? What.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Spideyjvc - 2010-01-25
Rob Wrote:Bumping a 2 weeks old thread only to say that? What.
Maybe ieat2much is a necrophiliac?
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Rob - 2010-01-25
Spideyjvc Wrote:Maybe ieat2much is a necrophiliac?
Sounds sexy. Me likey.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Chompy - 2010-01-25
"Me help."
Grammar Nazis Welcome - kingdj333 - 2010-01-25
It's in the funhouse so you can totally go off topic.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - Kabanaw - 2010-01-25
I can help you with any issues you have; however, I can only help to the best of my abilities.
This would be how you put in a semicolon, but this is like using utalize instead of use; it overcomplicates the sentence.
Grammar Nazis Welcome - ThatWasMyKil - 2010-01-25
inb4rick
Grammar Nazis Welcome - OhYumey - 2010-01-25
If you have any issues, I'll try to help you with the best of my abilities.
Maybe?
Grammar Nazis Welcome - ieat2much - 2010-01-26
What are you implying?