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The phrase "alternately help" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest providing assistance in an alternating manner, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "We can alternately help each other with our projects, taking turns to provide support."
Alternatives: "take turns assisting" or "provide help in turns".
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The next generation of young agents — Marissa's squabbling stepchildren and eventually her new baby — alternately help and hinder.
When the movie is not sounding like "The Pre-Teen Ager's Guide to Existentialism," it's simply a series of resolutely unexciting encounters between Atreyu and the creatures that alternately help and hinder his mission.
Mostly it has Ms. Judd, who, with a mightily clenched jaw and the help of some excellent stunt doubles, is surprisingly credible as a starched, middle-aged action figure battling unknown kidnappers, every intelligence agency in Europe, her former C.I.A. handlers and, most critically, her own maternal instincts, which alternately help and hinder her.
On The Prowl, members are able to ask the community for help in finding items, or alternately, help others in need – as with finding accessories for a dress, or finding the perfect gift for a friend.
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Military commanders alternately helped lynch mobs or tried to quell them.
Is this person capable of harming me (or, alternately, helping me)?
Their work alternately helps and hinders the investigating officers, Inspectors David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo and William Armstrong Anthony Edwardsds).
He's a master of the market, and that alternately helps and hinders his search for love and his attempts to control his madcap family.
Like any successful counterinsurgency, Afghanistan is likely to end somewhat unsatisfyingly for Americans, with a corrupt but gradually improving government in Kabul, advisers helping Afghan security forces fight a weakening but still dangerous Taliban, and a schizophrenic Pakistan alternately helping Afghan and Taliban fighters.
Alternately, helping somebody with a problem they're having goes a long way towards establishing your credibility.
The icon leading to the on-screen form is at the top of the page, labeled, alternately, Forms Help or Census 2000, or people can go directly to the questionnaire site (www.2000.census.gov).
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