| 2 | 4 | 16 | 24 | |
| cases | O | 2O | NC | ONC |
| TO BRING | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| TO CARRY | ✔️ | |||
| TO FETCH | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| TO TAKE | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
2O = followed by a two objects;
NC = followed by a noun complement;
ONC = followed by an object which is a noun complement
2 Bring your friends (to the party).
4 Bring me your homework when you come tomorrow.
(or Bring your homework to me.)Bring always means ‘towards the speaker’; ‘Bring it here.’ Compare to 6.4 TAKE.
☣️Problems:
I’ve brought some friends to tea. (NOT taken)
I’ll take you to the station. (NOT bring)
2a I'll help you to carry the cases.
2b The cigarette packet carries (has) a health warning.
3c This aircraft can carry over 500 passengers.Carry means bring/take people or things from one place to another, but it involves ‘bearing the weight of something’, except with the special usage of the second example.
🌱 Noun: carriage, section of a train carrying passengers, cost of moving goods from one place to another.
☣️Problems:
Can I take you anywhere? (Can I give you a lift?) (NOT ‘carry‘ unless you take the person in your arms, or on your shoulders. It is correct to say: ‘I’ll carry the baby’.)
Have you got your keys with you? (NOT Are you carrying your keys? since they’re not heavy)
She was wearing a dress (a necklace, earrings, glasses). (NOT carrying for clothing, accessories, etc., but ‘She was carrying a heavy shopping bag’.)
2 Would you like me to fetch your slippers?
4 Fetch me a handkerchief from the bedroom, will you?Fetch just means ‘go and get something and bring it back’.
2a I'm going to take the children to school.
2b You must take the medicine after meals.
2c Keep still, and I'll'take your photograph.
4 I've taken her her breakfast (in bed). (I've taken her breakfast to her.)
24 JOEY - How long does it take (you) to get to work?
RACHEL - It takes (me) half an hour.The usual meaning of take is ‘away from the speaker’ – ‘Take it over there’. Compare bring, and problems with bring. But it is also used with a number of expressions with different meanings. Note the following: ‘It has taken (him) a long time’ (16), (24); ‘take a bus’ (or ‘catch’), ‘take a chance’, ‘take a class’ (teach, not ‘give’), ‘take medicine’, ‘take a photograph’ (not ‘make’), ‘take a seat’ (occupy), ‘take a subject’ (study).
☣️Problems:
Take me with you. (NOT bring / carry)
He got very good marks. (NOT took)