In case someone wants to add anything.

corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=39455123

I wish we had a downvote button for unhelpful comments.

> Had I come to know about his difficulties I would have certainly helped (him).

Is this sentence wrong without 'him"?

I don't think without the object of "help", this sentence is wrong.

@Man_From_India I agree. I think it's okay. Help can be used intransitively too.

And another thing I want to know if english number is written with a hyphen? like twenty-four?

Hi! @DamkerngT.

How are you doing today?

@user62015 Good. Thanks! How about you?

(Actually, it's a bit busy, but that's okay.)

I am great.

I need your help for now.

Here soft skills and customer handling skills help you to get out of the situation with a smart solution and they also make sure your customer 'will be remained' with you always

In the above sentence the line "will be remained" is wrong or not?

Somehow I feel like the whole sentence sounds awkward.

I just need to understand that line.

It's understandable. I also think you must be able to understand it.

But someone told me that it should be 'will be remain' not 'remained'

So I had an argument on it.

will be remain is definitely ungrammatical.

will be remained is just a bit iffy, imho.

So which will you pick?

Why do you have to pick?

Because it became a very serious argument?

Language is not always black-and-white, imo.

My friend told me that it should be 'will be remain' and I said 'will be remained'

Also, if it were math (but it's not a math problem), we wouldn't pick either any way. Like when someone forces you to choose between a) 1+1 = 1.999 and b) 1+1 = 2.001.

I just need your choice?

@user62015 If I had to say remain anything in that line, I would at least change it to will remain.

And will remain is not the best choice, imho.

Another obvious thing is your customer. It's odd to use customer instead of customers.

I just need your support. Like let's say someone is saying that 'will be remained' is it grammatically wrong or right?

It's acceptable grammatically, but to me its meaning is odd in this context.

Okay. Thanks.

And will be remain is wrong?

Will be remain is wrong, because I've never heard anyone use remain as an adjective before.

Thanks.

Let's say, it's similar to She will be *read her book this evening. That's ungrammatical.

Thanks.

Um.. You're welcome.

Thanks.

Thanks for your time.

I hope the argument won't turn out the wrong way, though!

No. It was not.

Phew!

So is it okay there?

@snailboat is the following sentences correct

> I don't mind his/him taking alcohol.

thanks...and one is more formal than the other, i guess?

@snailboat nods :-)

now what about these prepositions? blind in/on/with/of one eye

I am sure in is idiomatic, but I have seen other prepositions are also sued.

I did, and so I asked...other prepositions are also there :-(

oh sorry I searched Global corpus

but in global corpus there are examples with other prepositions...but they are very few compared to in.

thanks :-)

@snailboat This one, perhaps?

@user62015 Remain is an intransitive verb, so it can't be cast in the passive like this; you have to say she will remain with you. You may be confusing remain with retain*="hold on to": *She will be retained by you. "Retaining" customers/clients is very big in the business world today.

Something I didn't address there is syntactic and discourse context. I think the accusative is more acceptable, and feels more natural, when the subject is 'raised' to an object position, particularly if it's emphatic "I don't mind him taking alcohol, but she's only fifteen." So it's likely that you passed easily from "it's better" to "it's formally more correct" -- which is the attitude you'd hope the stylists would adopt! :)

@snailboat It's one of those constructions that's gonna piss somebody off whatever you do, like the genderless pronoun thing. I generally solve the problem by rewriting to avoid it.