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I'm reading the following dialogue, pretty straightforward:

> A：ずいぶんあわてて、どうしたんだ。  
>  B：昨日出さなければいけない報告書を忘れていたんだ。  
>  A：それは大変だ。まあ頑張れよ。  
>  B：なんだ、手伝ってくれるのとちがうのか。  
>  A：それは、君の仕事だろう。

I have problems understanding the full meaning of 手伝ってくれるのとちがうのか。 I understand
手伝ってくれる and ちがう as separate, independent things. But I don't get the full
sentence, though I suspect the overall meaning might be something along the
lines of 手伝ってくれない？
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Meaning of 「手伝ってくれるのとちがうのか」
の as in 手伝ってくれるの is so called a nominalizer, which turns a clause into
technically a noun. And, (noun) と ちがう means "be different from (noun)".

Now, when you embed the 手伝ってくれるの, which is technically a noun, into "(noun)と
ちがう", you get something like "it's different from a situation that you help
me".
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