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 When you want to move an object to a different place, you can use bring or take. Here are some simple rules: |
We use bring for movements toward the speaker or hearer is.
We use take for movements to other places. |
Compare:
This is a nice restaurant. Thanks for bringing me here.
(NOT... Thanks for taking me here.)
Let's have another drink, and then I'll take you home.
(NOT... and then I'll bring you home.)
(on the phone) Can we come and see you next week at your office? We'll bring some food.
Let's go see Tim at his office. We can take some food. |
We can use bring for a movement to a place where the speaker or listener was or will be. |
Compare:
Where are those dishes I asked for?
I brought them to you while you were in the kitchen. Don't you remember?
I took the dishes to the dinner table.
Can you bring your car to my house tomorrow?
Can you take your car to the garage tomorrow? |
 Exercise: Bring or Take? |
| Directions: Choose the correct answers. |
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 1. Are you going to ______ work with you when you go on vacation? |
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bring |
take |
| 2. (A wife asking her husband on the phone. She is at home and he is at his office.)
Are you going to _____ work home tonight? |
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bring |
take |
| 3. Should we _____ Peter out for a drink on his birthday? |
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bring |
take |
| 4. Are you _______ her to the party? I will come alone. |
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bringing |
taking |
| 5. I'm not ______ her to the party. I don't think she wants to go. |
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bringing |
taking |
| 6. _____ this to the post office. |
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Take |
bring |
| 7. When you come over, can you _____ some food? |
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bring |
take |
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