I'll do whatever I can (do)

[hirashin]

Hello, native English speakers, I'm really grateful to you all.
Without your help I could not give my students good English sentences.

Here's another question from me.

Which sentence(s) would be used?
(a) I'll do anything I can.
(b) I'll do anything I can do.
(c) I'll do anything that I can.
(d) I'll do anything that I can do.
(e) I'll do whatever I can.
(f) I'll do whatever I can do.
(g) I'll do as much as I can.
(h) I'll do as much as possible.

Thanks in advance.

Hirashin

 

[Lothor]

They are all OK.
Can I make a suggestion here? It's clear that you're teaching fairly basic English, in other words, if there are subtle differences between the meaning of sentences, your students don't need to know them. Don't give them lots of almost identical options. In this case, I'd give them (a) since it's got fewest words and is also the most commonly used.
If they are confident with (a), then (b) to (d) are not going to confuse them, and if (e) to (h) come up in class, you can tell them they mean the same.

Another suggestion is to start your own 'Help for Japanese people teaching English' thread (I assume you're Japanese!), which you and hopefully in future other teachers such as yourself can ask all your questions.

 

[hirashin]

Thank you for the help and suggestion.

I wish I could give the students only one sentence, but in most Japanese-to-English translation exercises the students write a wide variety of English sentences. which I can't judge whether they are correct or not. So I have to ask native speakers about them. It's impossible for a non-native English speaker like me to teach J to E translation.
Sigh...

Hirashin

 

[hirashin]

Thank you for the help and suggestion, Lothor.

 

[hirashin]

Thank you for the help and suggestion, Lothor.

I wish I could give the students only one sentence each. But in most Japanese-to English translation exercises, they write a wide variety of sentences, some of which I can judge whether they are correct or not. That's why I ask a lot of questions here.

Another suggestion is to start your own 'Help for Japanese people teaching English' thread (I assume you're Japanese!), which you and hopefully in future other teachers such as yourself can ask all your questions.

That sounds a good idea. Thank you for the good suggestion, Lothor.

Hirashin

 

[ChrisNico]

In English, we tend not to repeat verbs in a similar way that subjects are not repeated (specified) twice in Japanese:

私は食堂に行って、昼ご飯を食べます。 sounds more natural than 私は食堂に行きます。私は昼ご飯を食べます。

Therefore:

(a) sounds more natural than (b)-(d)
(e) sounds more natural than (f) and (g)
(h) sounds natural

And while the meanings of (a) (e) and (h) are very similar, (a) sounds the most willing to help because that person will do anything.

In (e) "whatever" acknowledges that some things are impossible (without saying it).

In (h) "as much as possible" acknowledges that some things are impossible, saying it explicitly.

Good luck!

 

[Lothor]

Hirashin - thanks for explaining your problem. It does explain all the questions you've been asking!