remember
part of speech
verb (remember, remembers, remembered, remembering)
meaning for a pupil
1) To remember is to keep something in your mind and bring it back later: I remember my first day at school. tree →
2) To remember to do something is to not forget to do it: Remember to bring your hat. tree →
3) To remember someone can mean to think of them with respect, like those who died. tree →
sense in the lessons
the student storing a rule that links a word to an operation («I will remember: «left» — subtract»); in class «Remember: «in all» means put the groups together»; in everyday life remembering names, birthdays, your address; in safety remember your phone number and address
examples
- Student: I am listening. I will remember: «left» - subtract. tree →
- Remember: «in all» means put the groups together. tree →
- Remember to read the whole problem first. tree →
- Do you remember my name? tree →
- Remember to brush your teeth. tree →
- I remember the day we got our puppy. tree →
- Learn your address and remember it. tree →
- We remember the soldiers on Remembrance Day. tree →
- You remember about her pet wolf. tree →
note
Carries no operation clue; it marks a rule to keep, not a quantity. «remember to do» (not forget a task) is different from «remember doing» (have a memory of it). Noun «memory». Opposite: forget.
In the corpora
- Remembering does not stop after the funeral.
- Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal.
- The others in it may have said nothing in public, and a fair person remembers that.
- Remember what it cannot do.
- You remember Sam, Mia, Jake and Lily, but you never had a body or sat on a chair.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «remember» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.