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[rayt]

Dear teachers,

If what I want to say is my father AND mother help us to take out equipments. Please help me if sentence below is correct? Is it correct to write �as well as my father� at the end of sentence?


Once we reach the ski park car lot, my mother helps us take out the equipment from the trunk as well as my father.


Thank you.

[pugachevV]

I'd write the sentence like this:- Once we reach the ski hill ( or ski resort) parking lot, my mother and father help us take the equipment out of the trunk.

Your original sentence is ambiguous. It could be taken to mean that you took your father out of the trunk.