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>If I am invited to dinner at your home I might take you a bottle of wine.
but, "Would you like me to bring a bottle of wine when I come to dinner?"
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i'd use along with bring.. "come visit, and bring along
(any of the following)
that hunky boyfriend of yours."
the kids, my house is childproof"
those relatives of yours that are visiting."
or any other number of phrases..
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Re your example, ASp, I would say, "I have to take my car in to get it fixed." But, when making the appointment, I would ask, "When can I bring it in". This usage is pretty standard here. This post also brings nothing new to the discussion, and simply takes up space.
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"...I can't, at the moment, think of any bring idioms. "
We bring people to tears...and to their knees.
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There is a difference but of most common use rather than only use. The sense I get is that bring is more about destination while take puts the emphasis on the object being moved. OTOH a moment ago I was going to agree with maahey that the difference is in tense. The more I look the more tenuous the distinction gets but they feel different in emphasis rather than actual definition
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Just for completeness, a word not often heard these days is
"fetch" = go take it and bring it to me.
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In reply to:
I can't, at the moment, think of any "bring" idioms.
One of my friends from New Englad has a use for bring that I find kind of funny. He'll say "Bring it!" as a joke challenge, presumably short for "Bring it on!"
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I use fetch; I like it.
I don't mind bring and take being interchangeable, as long as people don't say brung instead of took!!
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Officially Correct English, like the Tooth Fairy and Civic Virtue, is a product of grade school mythology
Love it.
When you go to the meeting next Friday, please bring your department's current budget report.
But if it had been When you come to the meeting next Friday… spoken by the same person at the same place and time, the sentence would have been correct with bring.
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