REMEMBER OR REMIND!??

 

Do you know which is the correct one??

Remember me to take my pen.

Remind me to take my pen.

Remember or remind???

Remember

If we remember someone or something, we keep that person or thing in our mind or we bring that person or thing back to our mind:

I will always remember you. You have helped me so much.

Not: I will always remind you.

Suddenly I remembered that I had promised to ring my mother.

Remember + to-infinitive means that we don’t forget to do something:

Remember to save your work often, just in case your computer crashes.

Remember + the -ing form of a verb means ‘have a memory of something we did or of something that happened in the past’:

I remember meeting her once. It must have been about five years ago.

Not: I remember to meet her once …

She said she didn’t remember getting an email from him.

We can also use remember + object + to when we ask someone to ‘give regards to’ or ‘say hello to’ someone:

A: Remember me to your parents when you see them.

B: I will. They always ask about you.

Remind

If a person or thing reminds you of someone or something, they make you think of that person or thing, or they resemble that person or thing:

That song always reminds me of the time I fell in love with an Italian girl.

Not: … always remembers me of the time …

Jason reminded me of my father. They had the same eyes and the same way of talking.

Not: Jason reminded me my father.

If we remind someone to do something or about something, we make them remember it or help them not to forget it:

He’s probably forgotten he was supposed to be here at 6. Shall I ring him and remind him?

Remind me to email Tony today; otherwise I’ll probably forget.

Not: Remember me to email Tony today.

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BRING, TAKE AND FETCH

 Till now we are used to sharing two words differences,  but for today we bring three words that are troublemaker when it comes to writing and speaking.

Such as:

  BRING, TAKE AND FETCH

Bring

Bring means moving something or someone. The movement is either from where the listener is to where the speaker is, or from the speaker to the listener.

Bring is an irregular verb. Its past tense and -ed form are both brought.

In both of the following examples, the speakers are seeing things from A’s viewpoint – things will move to the place where A is:

A:Are you going to the bedroom?

B:Yes.

A: Can you bring me my grey sweater? It’s on the bed.

B: Yeah. (B will return with the sweater to the place where A is.)

Not: Can you take me my grey sweater?

A: Are you coming to our place on Friday night?

B: Yes. Do you want me to bring my guitar? (B will carry the guitar to the place where A will be.)

Bring can also mean moving with something or someone from another place to the speaker’s or listener’s location:

[on the telephone]

A: Did Laura bring you anything for your birthday?

B: Yes. She brought me some flowers and a CD. (Laura is C, another person, in a different place from A or B. She moved with something to where B, the listener, was.)

Take

Take means movement with something or someone from where the speaker or listener is to a different place:

[university assistant at a central faculty office, speaking to a student]

You have to fill in this form and then take it to the English Department to get it stamped. (the assistant and the student are at the central faculty office – the English Department is a different place)

Not: … and then bring it to the English Department

A: I can take you to the station tomorrow. What time’s your train? (Neither A nor B is at the station; it is a different place.)

B: Thanks. It’s eight-thirty.

Bring or take?

Compare

She visits her father every morning and she always takes him the day’s newspaper.

She visits her father every morning and she always brings him the day’s newspaper.

Fetch

Fetch means to go to another place to get something or someone and return with the thing or the person. We use it for people and things that are not here but that we need or are due to be here. We can usually use get instead of fetch:

If you’re going to the garage, can you fetch that green bag with the paintbrushes in it? Or Can you get that green bag …

Right. It’s five o’clock. I’d better go and fetch my mother from the station.

Bring, take and fetch: typical errors

We don’t use take when something is seen from the receiver’s viewpoint:

A: Are you and Josh coming to our party?

B: Yeah. Sheila invited us.

A: Good. Can you bring some CDs? We’re a bit short of music.

Not: Can you take some CDs?

Brought is the past tense of bring. Bought is the past tense of buy:

Angela was in Morocco and she brought us back a beautiful wooden tray.

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TELL OR SAY??

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation  in which we don't know wether we use a  certain word or another one. Today, we're going to speak about two verbs that even for the native speakers they puzzle their mind.

Do You know when to use tell and say???

If not, or You have some doubts, this post is truly for You!

Today, as usual, we're going to explain in a clear and Simple way in which circunstances we  have to use a word instead of another one.

Say and tell are irregular verbs. The past simple of say is said, the past simple of tell is told:

They asked if I was looking for work and I said yes.

Then he told me how he had got the job by lying about his age.

We use say and tell in different ways in reported speech. Say focuses on the words someone said and tell focuses more on the content or message of what someone said:

‘Hello,’ she said.

Not: ‘Hello,’ she told.

She told him they were going on holiday. (The focus is on the information.)

We use say with direct speech. We don’t normally use tell in this way:

He said, ‘I’m not paying £50 for that.’

Reported speech

Say and tell with objects

Both say and tell take a direct object. The object is most commonly the reported clause (the report of what someone said).

reporting clause

reported clause (direct object)

She said

‘I don’t know what you mean.’

I told her

why it had happened.

Tell normally takes an indirect object (one or more people = io) and a direct object (the reported clause = do):

The boy told 

[IO]

us 

[DO]

he didn’t want any money.

However, we use tell without an indirect object with words such as the truth, a lie, a joke, a story:

You should never tell a lie.

Not: … say a lie.

Come on Kevin. You’re good at telling jokes.

Say does not take an indirect object. Instead, we use a phrase with to:

And then she said to me, ‘I’m your cousin. We’ve never met before.’

Not: And then she said me …

Tell + indirect object + to-infinitive

We use tell with an indirect object and a to-infinitive to report a command or an instruction. We don’t normally use say in this way:

They told us to come back the next day.

Not: They said us to come …

They told her to wait till the doctor arrived.

Spoken English:

But in informal speaking, we sometimes use say + to-infinitive to report a command or an instruction:

I asked him if he wanted it today but he said to leave it till tomorrow.

Typical errors

We don’t use an indirect object with say:

‘I’m in a hurry,’ he said to me.

Not: … he said me.

We don’t use tell without an indirect object when we report someone’s words:

Then a loud voice said, ‘Hello.’

Not: … a loud voice told, ‘Hello.’

She said she would wait for us outside.

Not: She told she would wait …

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Do or make!?

 English is a very Interesting language. Despite the fact of being easy there are some tricky words in which may imply the same thing, but they are used in different contexts. That's why when it comes to the usage; many english learners find difficult.

Do You know when to use do and make??

Calm down, you are on the right site. Today we are going to explain you  how to use do and make in a right way and with more confidence.

When we use do and make with noun phrases, do focuses on the process of acting or performing something, make emphasises more the product or outcome of an action:

When I was 

[action]

doing the calculations, 

[outcome]

I made two mistakes.

[action]

I did some work for her last summer; 

[outcome]

I made a pond in her garden.

Examples of nouns used with do and make

Nouns which combine with do:

- activity

- damage

-favour

- job

- task

- business

- drawing

- gardening

- laundry

- test

- cleaning

- duty

- harm

- one’s best

- washing (up)

- cooking

- exam(ination)

- homework

- painting

- work

- course

- exercise

- ironing

- shopping

I do the shopping on Fridays usually.

Could you do a job for me next week?

Who does the cooking in your house?

Nouns which combine with make:

- apology

- coffee

- excuse

- love

- offer

- remark

- assumption

- comment

- friends

- lunch

- phone call

- sound

- bed

- complaint

- guess

- mess

- plan

- soup

- breakfast

- dinner

- law

- mistake

- profit

- speech

- cake

- effort

- list

- money

- progress

- statement

- change

- error

- loss

- noise

- promise

- tea

They made me an interesting offer of a job in Warsaw.

My sister made a cake Yesterday.

I have to make a phone call.

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