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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

recall vs remember

Hello,

Could anyone please explain to me why remember rather than recall is the right verb in the following sentence?

Can you .......... Mr Smith's phone number?

I would appreciate your help.

Kati
  

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Anonymous remember rather than recall is the right verb I can't say that I agree completely with your premise. Both verbs sound all right to me in that sentence, though I rarely use 'recall', so I'd say 'remember', but that's just a personal choice. In short, I can't explain why 'recall' might be wrong.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous remember rather than recall is the right verb I can't say that I agree completely with your premise.
  • Both verbs sound all right to me in that sentence, though I rarely use 'recall', so I'd say 'remember', but that's just a personal choice.
  • In short, I can't explain why 'recall' might be wrong.
  • For more than two hundred years, 'remember' has been used more than 'recall', but I don't see that that makes 'recall' wrong.
  • CJ
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Anonymousremember rather than recall is the right verb
I can't say that I agree completely with your premise.

Both verbs sound all right to me in that sentence, though I rarely use 'recall', so I'd say 'remember', but that's just a personal choice.

In short, I can't explain why 'recall' might be wrong. For more than two hundred years, 'remem
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Recall is more formal and not common. Remember is not formal and much more common.
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