help each other

Meaning

This phrase describes mutual assistance, where two or more people give support, advice, or cooperation to one another. It highlights the collaborative nature of healthy relationships, families, or teams.

Examples

• Good friends always help each other during difficult times.

  Good friends always help each other during difficult times.

• We can finish this project much faster if we help each other.

  We can finish this project much faster if we help each other.

• My brother and I help each other with our homework every evening.

  My brother and I help each other with our homework every evening.

• In a strong relationship, partners need to help each other grow.

  In a strong relationship, partners need to help each other grow.

• The neighbors help each other clean up the street after the storm.

  The neighbors help each other clean up the street after the storm.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We must help ourselves.

  ✓ We must help each other.

  'Help ourselves' means each person helps themselves individually. 'Help each other' means reciprocal help between people.

• ✗ They help each another with the chores.

  ✓ They help each other with the chores.

  Use 'each other' for two people (or generally) and 'one another' for more than two, but never mix them as 'each another'.

Related Expressions

Practice

• To make this marriage work, we have to ___.

  💡 Give mutual support.

  Show answer

  help each other

• The two students agreed to ___ study for the final exam.

  💡 Assist one another.

  Show answer

  help each other