Tuesday, October 7, 2014

assistance, assitants

Assistance or assistance means help, aid, or support--
He heard someone call for help, and ran to offer assistance.
Your asssistance in this matter is appreciated.

Assistants or assistants ( rhymes with assistance ) is the plural ( more than one ) of "assistant", meaning a helper or aide--
The scientist and his assistants worked on the problem for more than a year.
Each interviewer will have two assistants.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"We couldn't have finished on time without the assistance of the carpenter and his assistants."

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