Communication
offer someone a hand
offer to help
To offer to help someone with a task or problem.
Hear it in real life
You look busy with those boxes.
Thanks, but I can manage. I appreciate you offering a hand.
I offered my neighbour a hand with moving the sofa.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I offered him the hand with the boxes.
Say: I offered him a hand with the boxes.
Use the indefinite article “a” in the fixed phrase when “hand” means help.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
offer someone a hand; offer to lend someone a hand
Your turn: say it out loud
I offered my neighbour a hand with moving the sofa.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
offer someone a hand
offer to help
“I offered my neighbour a hand with moving the sofa.”
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