‘REMIND’ or ‘REMEMBER’?

hello my name is emma and in today's video i'm going to explain the difference between remind and remember i'm also going to talk about the grammar of remind and the grammar of remember and the rules that go along with these two words so let's start with remind i'm going to first start by showing you two sentences i have the nurse reminded me to take my medication my second sentence is facebook reminded me to wish my friend happy birthday so can you guess what does it mean to remind someone to do something well when we remind someone it means someone or something makes you think of something okay so when you're using the word remind we have someone or something in this case the nurse is someone facebook is something we have the verb remind we have a person me so it reminds me to think about this so the nurse makes me think take your medicine facebook makes me think uh wish my friend a happy birthday okay so you need an object or a person to make use to make you think of something i know that sounds confusing but when i show you more examples it's going to become very clear and easy so one thing i wanted to say about the word remind is remind is always followed by a person the person doesn't have to be me it can be me you him her them us jane my mom my dad it can be any person so you'll notice here's remind it's followed by me i could change this to remind you remind her remind them okay as long as there's a person after the word then you're doing it correctly okay um so now we're going to look at some other examples of remind to really help you understand this word okay so i'm going to give you four examples of remind and then we'll talk about the grammar of each of these sentences so my first example is my calendar reminds me of my appointments so in my agenda i have a calendar and i write down my doctor appointments my dentist any meetings i have everything i have to do in a week i write in my agenda so when i see this agenda or when i see my calendar it makes me think of what i need to do it reminds me of what i need to do so in this case my calendar reminds me of my appointments it makes me think of my appointments i am a very forgetful person so i need to be reminded of things a lot i use this little notepad to write down anything i need to be reminded of so for example this notepad reminds me to wear sunscreen i always forget to wear sunscreen and when i get a sunburn i look like a tomato so i write down wear sunscreen and i tape this to my door so that way whenever i'm about to go outside i think oh i need sunscreen so this pad of paper reminds me to wear sunscreen it also reminds me i have a lot written down here to buy milk today my next sentence is about my brother the dentist reminded my brother that he needs to floss more so for a lot of people when they go to the dentist the dentist often says you need a floss the dentist reminds people to floss okay so this is a great example and again we always have a person after the word remind and it's either a thing or a person that makes us think of something so in this case the dentist is making my brother think he needs to floss now there's another way we use remind in english and that's where it's similar to resemble or look like smell like to have something similar to something else so i'm going to give you an example of this i remind my aunt of my grandma i have here a photo of my grandma you probably can't see it but her and i actually look like twins when my grandma was younger she looked very much like me so when my aunt sees me she thinks wow they look a lot alike so i remind my aunt of my grandma when my aunt sees me she thinks of my grandma i'm going to give you another example of this which is true and i think it's quite funny um somebody has said to me you remind me of nicole kidman i don't think i look like nicole kidman but i loved the compliment so thank you for that another thing somebody said to me was you remind me of barbie i also take that as a compliment so it means i'm similar to nicole kidman and barbie i don't know if you agree but that's what i've heard before um so now let's look at the grammar of her mind okay so we have the thing or the object the verb remind the person in this case me the next word we can use there's different words we can use one word we can use is of if we use of the next word needs to be a noun so for example my calendar reminds me of my appointments facebook reminds me of my friend's birthday so of is always followed by a noun in this case another well i shouldn't say always there's always exceptions but um it's usually followed with a noun another thing you might notice in the next sentence is we have the word here too we often use remind and two together so we have this notepad reminds me again remind is always followed by a person to wear sunscreen when we're talking about a task or some kind of job we have to do we often use two and then a verb my mother reminds me to call her my grandmother reminds me to send her a postcard these are examples of using remind with two so we can use it with of we can use it with two and we can also use it with the word that the dentist reminded my brother that he needs to floss more when we use that the next thing that follows is a subject so that can be he she i you they and a verb so the dentist reminded my brother that he needs to floss more i reminded my brother that he owes me money okay so another example of using that and finally when we talk about resemble we usually use of so if you want to say someone looks like someone else or reminds you in another way of someone else it can be their personality is similar the way they talk is similar um you know the way they think is similar any any way they are similar you can use remind the person of and then the second person now let's look at um how we use remember in a sentence and how it is different than remind all right so now let's talk about remember remember means to think about a memory from the past or something from the past the difference between remember and remind is with remind you need a person or a thing to make you think about something else with remember you don't need anything i can just remember just by thinking okay so here are some examples do you remember what you wore yesterday so what clothes did you wear yesterday do you remember so if i think i can remember i remember wearing a flower dress a different flower dress i remember yesterday i wore a choker or a nice necklace and i remember um yesterday i wore sandals can you remember what you were yesterday so again notice i didn't need an object and i didn't need a person i could think of it myself let's look at another example of remember i remember when i went to spain so i went to spain when i was 15 or 16 years old it was my first trip outside of canada so i remember when i went to spain i have a memory about spain i have many memories from spain so i use remember um i remember my first boyfriend tim was his name so i can think about memories of kim from my past i don't need to see tim to do this i just can think of it i remember visiting my grandma when i was a child a couple of weeks ago i saw my kindergarten teacher and i was very happy because my kindergarten teacher said i remember you well hopefully that's a good thing because your kindergarten teacher either remembers you because you were a great student or you were terrible i don't know which one but my my kindergarten teacher said i remember you so um these are some examples of remember now let's talk about the grammar of remember it's very different from the grammar of remind with remind we always have a person after the word remind with remember we don't we we use other things after remember so let's look at the first um the first sentence i wrote do you remember what you wore yesterday we often use words like what when why who after remember do you remember who uh your first crush was do you remember why you chose to study english okay so we often use what when why how with the word remember um here's another example of that i remember when i went to spain and notice after these words like what and when we have a subject and a verb okay another thing we can do after remember is we can just have a noun a noun is a person a place a thing or an idea so here i have i remember my first boyfriend tim tim's a noun okay so i could say i remember tim it's a very simple sentence but again it's a noun we don't need anything else or here's another example of that i remember you i'm a noun i'm a person um i remember uh the chair i remember the cup so you can use remember with a noun okay now i have another example i remember visiting my grandma so here we have a verb after remember and notice what uh the verb looks like it has ing at the end so sometimes when we use the the verb remember the verb after has ing and we use ing when we're talking about an action in the past so i remember visiting my grandma i remember watching star wars i remember um going to my friend's house yesterday okay so notice i used ing with each of those verbs um okay so now i'm going to talk about one last grammar point with the word remember so when we're talking about things in the past we can also use the word that after remember so here's an example i remember that i had a nice teacher i remember she was very sweet i remember that i loved school as a kid i loved english as a kid so notice that after the word that i have a subject and a verb so i remember that i had a nice teacher i remember that i loved english i still love english but i loved english as a kid so anytime after that you need a subject and a verb so let's talk about the last point about remember we can also use remember to and a verb when we use remember to and a verb we're talking about a task or a job in this case it means don't forget to do a task or a job so for example remember to buy milk and so after two we have the verb to buy remember to call me um i always forget to call people so my mom always tells me remember to call me i tell this to my students a lot remember to do your homework many students forget so i have to say don't forget remember to do your homework and here's the last thing i'll say remember to check out www.invid.com on this website there's a quiz about everything i have just talked about in this video so you can practice the difference between remind and remember and all the grammar points i covered there are a lot of other resources on ingvid.com so i highly recommend you check it out you can also subscribe to my channel there you will find many other videos on different topics related to english like pronunciation grammar writing and many more you can also check out my website at www.teacheremma.com so thank you so much for watching and until next time take care

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021