What is the difference between bring, take and get? What is the difference between Bring, Carry, Bear and Take and their synonyms? Exercises to reinforce the topic.

1. to bring - to take - to fetch

to bring - to come with, to carry or lead. If you bring someone or something with you when you come to a place, you have them with you. If you ask someone to bring you something, you are asking them to carry or move it to the place where you are.
bring / bring / bring = I don’t have something, and I’m waiting for someone to BRING it to me
Please bring your calculator to every lesson.
He would have to bring Judy with him.
Bring me a glass of water, please.

to take - to move or carry sth from one place to another.
If you take someone or something with you when you go to a place you have them with you. If you take them to a place you carry or drive them there.
take / take / take (children) / carry = I already have something, and I myself am carrying it somewhere
It's Richard's turn to take the children to school.
She gave me some books to take home.

to fetch - to go and get sth from another place and bring back.
If you fetch sth, you go to the place where it is and return with it to the place where you were before.
bring / grab = I will go, take it and return with this item
Let me fetch a chair for you.

2. to cry - to weep - to sob

to cry - to produce tears from the eyes as a sign of sorrow.
cry
The boy fell over and started crying.

to weep (formal) - to cry tears because of sadness or strong emotion, usually quietly and for a long time.
cry / sob (sobbing)
Weeping, the mourners followed the coffin to the churchyard.

to sob - to cry noisily while taking short breaths.
cry quietly / sob
She couldn't atop crying and sobbed herself to sleep.

3. to long (for) - to wish - to yearn (for)

to long - to want sth very much, especially when this used to happen or existed in the past.
really want, passionately desire (something), feel a need (for something), strive (for something)
He longed for the good old days when teachers were shown respect.
I long for you - I really need you.

to wish (formal) - to want strongly to do sth.
want something badly
Everyone has the right to smoke if he or she wishes, but not the right to ruin the health of those around them.

to yearn (formal) - to want sth so much that you do not feel happy or complete without it, but you know you are NOT likely to get it.
languish, yearn for (someone/something); want (smth.) very much
Above all the prisoner yearned for freedom.

EXERCISES

A. take - bring - fetch

1. Come to the party and ___ your friend, I’ll be very happy to see you both.
2. Could you please go and ___ a piece of chalk from the teacher’s room?
3. It was my grandmother who ___ me to the theater for the first time.
4. We are meeting at 8 near the school, don’t forget to ___ your packed lunches with you.
5. It’s not so difficult to teach your dog to ___ sticks.
6. Father came home early and ___ a big beautifully decorated cake.
7. When I go travelling, I always ___ this bag, it’s very convenient.
8. My friend ___ me this magnet as a souvenir from England.
9. In the evening we used to go and ___ milk from the nearby farm.

B. cry - sob - weep

1. I held back tears because I didn’t want my friends to think that I was ___.
2. Brokenhearted she ___ silently at night not to disturb her family.
3. I always feel like ___ when I watch this scene at the end of the film.
4. From behind the door we heard a child ___ loudly in the house.
5. When Joan heard the happy news, she began to ___ tears of joy.
6. We were woken up in the middle of the night by a loud noise: it was little Andy ___ and calling his mother.
7. Please don’t ___, I’ll repair your doll, I promise.
8. She ___ hysterically her whole body shaking.
9. The girl __ quietly trying to hide her hitter tears from her friends.

C. long (for) - yearn (for) - wish

1. Duncan still ___ for his dead wife after all these years.
2. If you ___ really hard, maybe you’ll get what you want.
3, - Where is he now? - I only __ I knew.
4. Max waited for the taxi to come. He ___ desperately to be back at home.
5. They were the words she had secretly ___ to hear. Patricia was happy.
6. Though Beatrice knew she couldn’t have children of her own, she ___ for them.
7. ‘I ___ they could come,’ said Martin.
8. Boris ___ for the winter to be over.
9. Vera knew the family desperately needed her help, she understood she could hardly leave them, but she ___ to go to St. Petersburg to become a movie actress.

Links to videos explaining the difference in some words in this block:

• Come, Go, Bring, Take, Fetch, Get: Learn English with Simple English Videos– simpleenglishvideo.com

At first glance, these two verbs are completely different: one of them is translated as "bring", and the other like "take" or "attribute". It would seem that there should be no difficulties in using it. However, as soon as it comes to moving in space, confusion begins in students' minds.

Position in the present tense. It turns out that everything depends on the position of the speaker or who is being spoken to. We use bring, if we want to talk about the movement of an object to where the speaker or listener is. And we use take speaking of moving an object to any other place. In other words, take describes movement FROM the location of the one who is speaking or the one being spoken to, and bring characterizes movement Towards the place where one of them is located.

Examples:

Thanks to our guide for bringing us here. Thanks to our tour guide for bringing us here.

Can you arrange a guide to take us to the castle? Could you find a guide who could take us to the castle?

Position in the future or past. Bring used when we talk about a place we have already been to in the past or will be in the future. Take it is used by analogy when talking about other places.

Examples:

I'm going to bring that book into the class tomorrow. I'm going to bring this book to class tomorrow.

Can you take this book the library, please? Can you take this book to the library?

Joining. Bring can also characterize joining a movement, even in cases where this movement is already described by a verb take.

I'm taking children to the park, would you like to join and bring your son? I'm taking the kids to the park, do you want to join and take your son?

We're talking about someone else. In cases where the movement occurs to a third party (neither the speaker nor the listener), we use bring.
Example:

He brought her flowers. He brought her flowers.

Derived terms

Noun

In English there are words bring, take and get, which can be used to mean “bring/take”. In what situations it is better to use each of these words, we will analyze in the article.

Bring

Pronunciation and translation:

Bring / [bring] - bring/bring

Meaning of the word:
Take something to the place where you are going

Use:
We use bring when we say that we came somewhere with something/someone. That is we already had something with us when we arrived. For example: They brought a delicious cake.

Example:

He won't bring a camera.
He will bring a camera.

She forgot to bring the map.
She forgot to bring the card.

Take

Pronunciation and translation:
Take / [teik] - take

Meaning of the word:
Move something to another location

Use:
We use take when we say that we took something to another place or took them with them. For example: She took a book on the road.

Example:

Take your coat.
Take your coat.

I"ll take this umbrella.
I'll take this umbrella.

Get

Pronunciation and translation:

Get [ˈɡet] / [get] - bring/take

Meaning of the word:
Go somewhere else and come back with something

Use:
We use get when we say that went somewhere, took something and came back. For example: It was cold outside, so he went home to bring his jacket.

Example:

She went to get me a towel.
She went to get a towel.

Get that book for me.
Bring me that book.

What is the difference?

Word bring we use it when we say that we came somewhere with something/someone. That is, we already had something with us when we arrived. For example: She brought gifts for the children.

Word take we use when we say that we took something to another place. That is, on the contrary, they took it with them. For example: He already took your bag.

Word get we use it when we say we went somewhere, took something and came back. For example: She went upstairs to bring a photo album.

Reinforcement task

Insert the appropriate word in the following sentences. Leave your answers in the comments below the article.

1. She ___ cookies for us.
2. It was raining outside, so she went ___umbrella.
3. Guests always ___ sweets for the children.
4. Don’t forget ___ these documents when you leave.
5. She ___ the money and left.
6. He went ___ me a blanket.
7. This bouquet is ___ especially for you.
8. On the road she always ___ a notebook with a pen.

04 Oct.

If you didn’t pass by while learning English, then most likely you are not confusing verbs bring And take : after all, they have a completely different translation - bring and take, respectively. However, teaching practice shows that as soon as the teacher asks to translate, for example, the word “give” into English, the student begins to go through all the “verbs of giving” -, give take bring etc. - while being fully aware of how which word is translated. This suggests that these words are also confused in the native language, not to mention English.

Another example: the editor of an American linguistic magazine received a letter from a concerned father. He asked the columnist to explain to his school-aged children the difference between bring And take . This case, in turn, suggests that native speakers also have a hard time with these two words. Therefore, in this article we set out to put everything in its place.

It won't be easy for us, because the verb take has about 30 meanings! However, the good news is that we only need one thing, the main one - “to move an object or person from one place to another.”

John, could you take the children to school? - John, could you take the children to school? (i.e. “move them from home to school”).

Verb bring has the same meaning, but with an additional condition: not only do you need to move an object or person from one place to another, you also need to stay next to this object.

Can I bring the children with me? - Can I bring my children with me? (that is, I will not only “move” them from one place to another, but then I myself will remain with them, which cannot be said about the first example with the school, in which the children are “given over” to other hands).

Another explanation of the difference is given in dictionaries: bring describes the movement of an object if the speaker or listener is already at the “destination.” Take describes the movement of an object if the speaker or listener is NOT at the "destination"

• “bring it to London” - you are in London
• “take it to London” - you are NOT in London

If we are not talking about movement, then it is quite simple, because the meanings are completely different:

• Bring me a glass of water please. - Bring me a glass of water, please.
• Take this glass of water and water the flowers. - Take this glass of water and water the flowers.

In addition, it would be useful to remember stable expressions. This option is the most reliable memorization mechanism, although it contains the meanings of words bring And take are rarely observed.

Table. Difference between Bring and Take