{"id":72318,"date":"2019-09-20T05:29:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72318"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:29:49","slug":"help-cant-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/help-cant-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Help, Can&#8217;t Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">After <b>help<\/b>, we can use <b>object + infinitive.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <b>helped her to lift <\/b>the box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often use the infinitive without to. This is rather informal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <b>helped her lift <\/b>the box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>can\u2019t help<\/h5>\n<p>If you say that you <b>can\u2019t help <\/b>doing something, you mean that you can\u2019t stop yourself doing it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sorry I broke the cup &#8211; I <b>couldn\u2019t help<\/b> it.<\/li>\n<li>I <b>can\u2019t help wondering <\/b>what I should do next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Can\u2019t help <\/b>can be followed by <b>but + infinitive without to<\/b>. The meaning is the same as <b>can\u2019t help &#8212; ing<\/b>. This structure is common in American English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <b>can\u2019t help but wonder <\/b>what I should do next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After help, we can use object + infinitive. He helped her to lift the box. We often use the infinitive without to. This is rather informal. He helped her lift the box. can\u2019t help&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[428,1531],"class_list":["post-72318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-cant-help","tag-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72319,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72318\/revisions\/72319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}