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Cocomango Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
I forgot and I forget
When do you use "I forgot" and when do you use "I forget"? 
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Cocomango When do you use "I forgot" and when do you use "I forget"? Technically: I forgot to do something (yesterday). I always forget to turn the lights off (generally, present included).
- Cocomango When do you use "I forgot" and when do you use "I forget"?
- Technically: I forgot to do something (yesterday).
- I always forget to turn the lights off (generally, present included).
- Unfortunately, we often use the simple present when we mean the present perfect.
- ) English, more than any other language I know of, freely interchanges tenses, which causes for much confusion for people trying to learn English.
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CocomangoWhen do you use "I forgot" and when do you use "I forget"?
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Somehow the thread reminds me of this monologue from The Tempest:
| FERDINAND | There be some sports are painful, and their labour | |
| Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness | ||
| Are nobly undergone and most poor matters | ||
| Point to rich ends. This my mea |
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Hello guys
I have a question about 'forget' and I would like to ask it on this occasion.
I've learned in school about 'forget' that we can say 'I forgot my umbrella' in the meaning of 'I inadvertently left my umbrella' but we cannot add a place adverbial to this phrase like 'I forgot my um
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"I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant" does not sound odd at all, but it is not a paraphrase of "I forgot to bring my umbrella [in / to / into] the restaurant". It is paraphrase of "I forgot to take my umbrella from the restaurant" or "I (unintentionally) left my umbrella in the restaurant".
CJ
CJ
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Hello CJ
Thank you for the quick reply.
The distinction between 'bring' and 'take' is really messy to us Japanese (who use the same verb for the both). Anyway it is interesting you use 'forget to take something' instead of 'forget to bring something' even in the case you are speaking in a place to which you have to bring the thing.
By the way, I re-read 'Longman Dictiona
Thank you for the quick reply.
The distinction between 'bring' and 'take' is really messy to us Japanese (who use the same verb for the both). Anyway it is interesting you use 'forget to take something' instead of 'forget to bring something' even in the case you are speaking in a place to which you have to bring the thing.
By the way, I re-read 'Longman Dictiona
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The advice not to use "forget" if you mention a place is good advice.
It's just that many people ignore that advice in real, everyday situations!
For that reason, i.e., the widespread use of "forget" with a place, it does not sound odd at all to me.
It's just that many people ignore that advice in real, everyday situations!
For that reason, i.e., the widespread use of "forget" with a place, it does not sound odd at all to me.
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Paco,
I hope you haven't misunderstood. I did not mean to imply that we say "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant" when we have arrived at the restaurant, sat down, and ordered, only to discover that we don't have the umbrella we intended to bring to the restaurant with us. We are not in the restaurant when we say "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant", but the umbrella is!
I hope you haven't misunderstood. I did not mean to imply that we say "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant" when we have arrived at the restaurant, sat down, and ordered, only to discover that we don't have the umbrella we intended to bring to the restaurant with us. We are not in the restaurant when we say "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant", but the umbrella is!
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I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant. Means, I forgot about my umbrella when I was in the restaurant. I was sitting there not thinking about my umbrella.
example: I forgot about the bad lighting in the restaurant the food was so good.
If you want to say you forgot to bring your umbrella out of the restaurant with you. You would have to say:- I forgot my
example: I forgot about the bad lighting in the restaurant the food was so good.
If you want to say you forgot to bring your umbrella out of the restaurant with you. You would have to say:- I forgot my
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