verb · neutral
help
/hɛlp/HELP
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to give assistance or be useful to someone or something
Examples
“She helped me finish the assignment.”
“This tip is really helpful.”
“He felt helpless when the car broke down.”
Band 8 sentence
“Her feedback was genuinely helpful in making my essay clearer and more focused.”
Collocations
- be helpful to somebody
- help somebody with something
- feel helpless
Word family
help verbhelp (n) / helping nounhelper nounhelpful adjectivehelpfully adverbhelpfulness nounhelpless adjectivehelplessness noun
Common mistakes
This phone is helpless.→This phone is useless.
She was helpful for me.→She was helpful to me.
Say it for a higher band
5good→6useful→7+helpful
Synonyms
useful
supportive
Easily confused
useful
“The information in the report was useful for the students.”
useless
“The instruction manual was useless for fixing the device.”
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