Get help means to receive help or find someone who will help: get help from a colleague. It often means going to a professional for help: If the pain doesn't stop, get help. Ask for help is only the request, while get help means reaching help and actually receiving it.
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get help (from + person) (with + task/-ing); get help for + problem; get professional/medical help
- I got help from a classmate with the statistics part of my project.
- If the visa forms confuse you, get help from the consulate staff.
- He finally got professional help for his back pain.
What changed
First versionWhere can I get a help with my visa application?
RevisionWhere can I get help with my visa application?
When help means assistance, it isn't counted, so it doesn't take a: get help, need help, ask for help. The correction removes the extra a.
The article appears when you praise the person who helped: You've been a great help! Here a help is a person or thing that was useful, so the word behaves like an ordinary countable noun.
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I asked three people, but I couldn't ___ help with the new software anywhere.
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get — To receive help is get help. A native speaker wouldn't say take help: in this sense take doesn't go with help.
Describe a time when you needed help. Say who helped you and with what.
Last month I got help from my brother with moving my furniture to the new flat.
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