Remember: recall information

The idea

Use remember her name, remember the address or remember where the station is. The regular past is remembered. A person remembers the information.

Examples

• I remember her name.
• She remembered the address yesterday.
• Do you remember where the station is?
• He remembers the driver’s name.
• We remembered the meeting time.
• I cannot remember the answer.

Watch out

Remember describes your own memory. Remind someone means help another person remember; the two verbs identify different roles.

Try it yourself

1. Choose the past form for yesterday. Yesterday she ___ the address. (remembered / remember)

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   remembered

   Remembered is the regular past form for yesterday.

2. Choose the sentence about her own memory. Which sentence says the address is in her memory? (She remembers the address. / She reminds the driver.)

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   She remembers the address.

   Remembers the address says she has that information in mind.

3. Decide what not remembering now proves. “I cannot remember the answer.” Does this alone prove I never knew it? (no / yes)

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   no

   Not remembering now does not prove you never knew.

Use it today

Describe a name or fact you remember and one you cannot recall.