Help yourselves meaning in English
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Definition
Help yourself (to biscuits!): Serve yourself! Go ahead! Take what (biscuits) you want!
You are welcome to help yourself to the cake, it's there for everyone.
Examples
- "Please help yourself to a glass of cold water, but you should know that's all the water you'll get for the next two weeks of the convention!"
- "And helped myself to a generous plate"
- "Oh, help yourself."
- "Can I help myself to refreshments now?"
- "Help yourselves dudes, and let's totally party like it's 1999!"
- "I remind you once again press kits are available all around the room. Please help yourselves."
- "It's also my favorite fragrance, so I always keep a bottle in the bathroom. When he's got the urge to burn something, he just helps himself!"
- "And helped myself to a plate"
Exercise 1
Philip uses the expression "help yourself" in this conversation.
From the list below, choose the sentences which use help yourself correctly, in the same sense as Philip uses it in the dialogue.
From the list below, choose the sentences which use help yourself correctly, in the same sense as Philip uses it in the dialogue.
Philip uses the expression "help yourself" in this conversation.
From the list below, choose the sentences which use help yourself correctly, in the same sense as Philip uses it in the dialogue.
From the list below, choose the sentences which use help yourself correctly, in the same sense as Philip uses it in the dialogue.
This sentence uses the expression correctly, in the same way that Philip uses it in the dialogue. "Help yourself" or "help yourself to (a cookie)" is a polite way to offer something to another person, or to let them know that they should feel free to do whatever they please. It is equivalent to saying "go ahead and take" or "please take (anything you find in the refrigerator)". In this dialogue, Philip tells Brian to "help himself" to a glass of sparkling water.
This sentence does not use the expression "help yourself" correctly, nor is it used in the same way that Philip uses the expression. In this sentence, the reflexive pronoun ("yourself") can't be used as the object of this sense. The correct sentence should read: "The fireman helped you escape from the fire".
This is a correct choice. "Help yourself" or "help yourself to (some brochures)" is a polite way to offer something to another person, or to let them know that they should feel free to do whatever they please. It is equivalent to saying "go ahead and take" or "please take (these brochures)". In this dialogue, Philip tells Brian to "help himself" to a glass of sparkling water.
This sentence does not use the expression "help yourself" correctly, or in the same way that Philip uses it. If we were trying to express that someone must do something alone, or without any help, we might say "you need to do these calculations BY YOURSELF".
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