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Giselle
A Favor A colleague complained to me about asking a favor from another colleague of mine. Because another colleague rejected to help her, she concluded by announcing that colleague was selfish and thought it was the main reason for him to still being a bachelor. Well, for me I think it’s never fair to judge another person’s life, let alone it’s because our request is declined. Others’ helping us is a favor and we shouldn’t take it for granted. So, in whatever situation, we should remain grateful because people don’t owe us favors.

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A Favor

A colleague complained to me about an incident in which she asked asking a favor from another colleague of mine.* Because another colleague rejected refused to help her, she concluded by announcing announced that this colleague was selfish and thought and that was the main reason for him to still being a bachelor. Well, for me I think it’s never it isn't fair to judge another person’s life, let alone it’s just because our request is declined.* Others’ helping us* is a favor and we shouldn’t take it for granted. So, in whatever situation, we should remain grateful, because people don’t owe us favors.

  • This is a little tricky. What your colleague is complaining about isn't the asking of the favor. It is the rejection. I added "an incident in which...", but it's still a little awkward. It might be better to combine the first and second sentences: "A colleague complained to me about another colleague refusing to help her..." - the refusal is what she is complaining about.
  • This is not strictly wrong grammatically, but it is a little confusing for the English-processing part of the brain! That brain is always waiting for the verb so it can begin analyzing the sentence, but the verb in this sentence is an easily missed "is". There is a word that comes before this "is", "helping", that sounds like a verb but isn't in this case. And the sentence began with a possessive pronoun that sounded like it was going to be a plain old pronoun "others" but turned out not to be. We might make things a bit easier for that English-processing brain to sort out by saying "Others help us as a favor, and we shouldn't take it for granted" or "The help of others is a favor, and we shouldn't take it for granted" or "When others help us, it is a favor that we should not take for granted".

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