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Bookmark or Share- did you bring bring or you brought | WordReference ForumsOne rarely uses the simple past in asking questions in English -- the "did" (or intensive past) form is much more common today, while using the simple past by itself sounds very archaic.
- Better words to substitute for "things"? - WordReference ForumsHello everyone, "There are three things I did well". Are there any words that can substitute the word "things". It doesn't sound formal enough to be used in an essay. Please help.
- bring - brang - brung :) - WordReference ForumsAnd neither brang, nor brung are found in Shakespeare, who uses brought 266 times in the poems and plays. Chaucer doesn't use brang or brung either, and uses brought twice in the Canterbury Tales and, surprisingly, 18 times in Troilius and Criseyde. I find it hard to escape the conclusion of many others that this is an uneducated modern variant.
- Bring me home vs. Take me home | WordReference ForumsI know there are other threads on the "take vs. bring" subject; unless I'm mistaken none of them specifically answers this question but I gathered that these two expressions are pretty much interchangeable. For what it's worth, googling "Take me home" I have got about 20 times as many hits as...
- Dance with the one that brung ya | WordReference ForumsBrung vs. Brought Also see bring - brang - brung :) The view Edinburgher takes is common, but linguists will not dismiss it so readily. (Edinburgher's assertion is actually Hayes's example of a "normative belief" here: Hayes Chapter 3 - Hayes Introductory Linguistics p. 60 Chapter 3: Normative)
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