It would be nice if you would help me in the kitchen.
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Could you tell me if that sentence is grammatically correct? And if so, what type of condition is that?
"It would be nice if you would help me in the kitchen. "please answer if only you can provide the explanation why it is right or wrong
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Чтобы придать просьбе или предложению больший оттенок вежливости, используются условные предложения ВТОРОГО типа.
If he were here, he would help us.
Если бы он был здесь, он бы помог нам.
If I were you, I would drive more carefully in the rain.
Если бы я был на твоем месте, я бы вел машину аккуратнее во время дождя (но я не на твоем месте).
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Yes, it's correct. Help in the kitchen is the subject, referred to by "it." "It would be nice" is followed by the conditional "if you would help in the kitchen." So the sentence is just saying that help from the person being spoken to would be nice. Perfectly correct in my opinion.
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You're phrase is correct if your speaker is implying that the other person does not help in the kitchen and it would be nice if they did. If your speaker is giving a command to help in the kitchen you would phrase it "It would be nice if you can help in the kitchen". The word "can" implies whether or not the person has the ability to help whereas "would" implies willingness to help.
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"It would be nice if you can help me in the kitchen"
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It would be nice if you helped me in the kitchen.
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