Nicholas Bamber <[email protected]> writes: > However it goes too far in asking for 'helps to' -> 'helps one to'. In > all the examples I have seen or can think of, both are grammatically > correct but the one without is more appropriate. Adding 'one' makes it > sounds long-winded and pompous.
Yeah, I think I agree. I can think of various places where I'd say that, as a native speaker, and would find that rephrasing unnatural. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
