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MaXmOuSe Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

When we use ?

0 forget with infinitive and when with gerunds ? 0-
  

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0 forget/remember + inf = something that has to be done 02br 00forget/ remember+gerund = something that happened in the past 02br 02br 00examples: 02br 02br 00Don't forget to lock the door (=You have to lock the door) 02br 00Please remember to pick up the children (=You have to pick up the children) 02br 00I can't remember locking the door (=I don't know if I did or not) 0-

— Maripinky

  • 0 forget/remember + inf = something that has to be done 02br 00forget/ remember+gerund = something that happened in the past 02br 02br 00examples: 02br 02br 00Don't forget to lock the door (=You have to lock the door) 02br 00Please remember to pick up the children (=You have to pick up the children) 02br 00I can't remember locking the door (=I don't know if I did or not) 0-
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0 forget/remember + inf = something that has to be done 02br
00forget/ remember+gerund = something that happened in the past 02br
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00examples: 02br
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00Don't forget to lock the door (=You have to lock the door) 02br
00Please remember to pick up the children (=You have to pick up the children) 02br
00I can't rememb
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0 Maripinky - Your first post is great - it would have taken me a long time to come up with that rule, but once you say it, it obviously works. Welcome to the Forum! -- khoff 02br
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00"I forgot to remember to forget you" -- Elvis Presley 0-
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0 I forgot to remember to forget ! Very elaborate example . Don't you think ! you forgot to remember isn't it a thing that happened in the past ? 0-
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0 I probably should not have put in the Elvis quote - its a song lyric, and not the best example. But I guess you could say that at the time he's talking about, he forgot that (in the future) he should remember to forget. Each verb is in the future relative to the previous verb. 02br
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00I think that saying you use the infinitive for something in the future means in the
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0 Thank you, khoff. I hope it won't be the last. 02br
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00I prefer not to mention word "future" when I explain remember/forget with infinitive , but that something has to be done, because it confuses students. 02br
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00"I forgot to remember to forget you" = I had to forget you but I forgot to do so. 0-
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0 So, when the work is not done we use infinitive ? I forgot to remember to forget you. beacause had to is an obligation .Or when it happened in the past and it had to be done we use infinitive not gerunds 0-
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0 Yes you are right. 02br
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00Even in the case when we talk about a past event, we have to use "forget to do" if the 'doing' is an action to be done. 02br
00(EX) Did you forget to phone your mother yesterday? 02br
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00paco 0-
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