Quick help needed, this is important (grammar).

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nona the brit  #316870  Thu, 18 Jan 07 05:35 PM

It depends whether it is being used as a verb or a noun.

Verb - request help - He requested help, I need to request help, they will request help...

Noun - request for help - he phoned me with a request for help, Bob's request for help fell on deaf ears....

  
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Jacekkr  #316876  Thu, 18 Jan 07 05:59 PM
Hail to Nona! Thank you so much!

Update:

All right now, I don't have anymore questions about the previous sentences, but I still have 15 more (these are the last 15, I swear! ;P) to check. Here you go:

1. Even without asking Mrs Grey's opinion, I can assure you sir, thet she would prefer to stay in the current office. But I do not doubt, that she will agree to be moved to one of the branches, if she has to.

2. We shouldn't have waited so long with calling the police. But we decided that if the camcorder is returned by tomorrow, we may treat the incident as unimportant.

3. While we were guaranteed the information technology would lead us into a paper-free paradise, the sad reality is that since the introduction of computers the consumption of paper is rising at the rate of twenty per cent a year.

4. We suspect that the boys, who claim that they were watching a game of chess in the yard of the museum might have been hiding there during the police raid. The fact is that none of them was able to explain even the most basic rules of the game.

5. I'm not sure now whether it was last year or two years ago when the  idea of a new sundial was put forward. Anyway, it's high time the town council did something about it.

6. On Sundays the boys were allowed to choose: a few of them went to the mountains, others went sailing on Lake Geneva, and four or five stayed in the hotel to watch NBA on TV.

7. Don't expect Nora to treat you seriously until you remove the pictures of your ex-fiancee from the wall in your office. You're only getting on her nerves and making a fool out of yourself when you start telling her how nice they look.

8. Before next year's tournament, the middle part of the wall must be raised so that the players on court one and three won't be blinded by the afternoon sun.

9. If you didn't see the car's plate numbers, how could you order your men to fire at it? They might have shot an innocent person.

10. Engineers are warning us that reception will be worsening for the next four years until it starts getting better some time in the middle of the next decade.

11. As a taxpayer, I can't understand why a lonely mother couldn't  take up a job while continuing to receive some support from the council. At least, if the job she gets  is underpaid or part-time.

12. The colour is said to be reflecting the car owner's personality. Anyway, I wouldn't want to speculate about what made Tina's father change his navy blue Volvo for a bright yellow Beetle.

13. Most of the people with whom these plans were talked over were against the setting up of benches, which would, as many of them feared, only attract troublemakers and drunks into the area.

14. Even if, for the time being, computer-controlled heaters are about twice as expensive as traditional ones, the price will certainly drop. As with other things, the more households get interested in installing them, the cheaper they will be.

15. I'm sceptical about the pottery Greg wants to bring from Greece. He should realise that these days hardly anywhere it is painted the old way. This sounds very strange, and I am not really sure whether it is gramatically correct, especially the underlined sentence.

  
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