{"id":72032,"date":"2019-09-13T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72032"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:10:53","slug":"take-vs-bring-vs-give-vs-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/take-vs-bring-vs-give-vs-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Take vs. Bring vs. Give vs. Put"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Take as the opposite of give<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Take<\/strong> is often used as the opposite of <strong>give<\/strong>. In this case, take means \u2018gain possession of\u2019, \u2018receive\u2019, \u2018obtain\u2019 or \u2018remove\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One must not take more than one gives.<\/li>\n<li>She likes to give advice, but she won\u2019t take it.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m afraid James is not in at the moment. Can I take a message?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We take something from a person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I won\u2019t take any advice from him. (NOT I won\u2019t take any advice of him.)<\/li>\n<li>She took the letter from the postman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Take as the opposite of put<\/h3>\n<p>Take can be used as the opposite of put. In this case take is used to talk about moving things away from their places.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He took off his coat and put on a gown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that we <strong>take<\/strong> something <strong>out of \/ from \/ off<\/strong> a place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She took some books from the bag.<\/li>\n<li>He took some coins out of his pocket.<\/li>\n<li>Take that stupid smile off your face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take<\/strong> as the opposite of <strong>bring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take can be the opposite of bring. In this case, it is used for movements which are not towards the speaker or hearer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t know what to take when I leave for France.<\/li>\n<li>Take that paper with you when you go to school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this case <strong>take<\/strong> can be used with two objects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shall I take her a cup of tea in bed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Common expressions with take<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Take<\/strong> is used in a number of common expressions referring to activities.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Take a bath; take a break; take a wash; take a swim; take a guess; take a shower; take a walk; take a vacation; take a look; take a rest; take a deep breath<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the names of meals we use <strong>have<\/strong>, not take.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have breakfast at 8 am. (More natural than \u2018I take breakfast at 8 pm.\u2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take as the opposite of give Take is often used as the opposite of give. In this case, take means \u2018gain possession of\u2019, \u2018receive\u2019, \u2018obtain\u2019 or \u2018remove\u2019. One must not take more than one&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1173,1035,1174,1172],"class_list":["post-72032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-bring","tag-give","tag-put","tag-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72033,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032\/revisions\/72033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}