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saintKlopp said:
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Generally I would use bring if it was to where I am - take if elsewhere. "Please bring me a drink and take one to him over there".
To me, bring does suggest you are in the target place, but I think it's more a convention than a rule.
From Spain to Birmingham is bringing them closer as well, so mito's usage didn't bother me.
I have an Irish friend who would say something like "My car's being repaired, will you bring me to the garage to pick it up". That definitely sounds wrong.
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You said [pretty much the same as I did, if you had a look.
 
saintKlopp said:
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Generally I would use bring if it was to where I am - take if elsewhere. "Please bring me a drink and take one to him over there".
To me, bring does suggest you are in the target place, but I think it's more a convention than a rule.
From Spain to Birmingham is bringing them closer as well, so mito's usage didn't bother me.
I have an Irish friend who would say something like "My car's being repaired, will you bring me to the garage to pick it up". That definitely sounds wrong.
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johnsonsbaby said:
Not necessarily true. If he was being interviewed in Spain about a move to Birmingham and asked whether his family would join him, he could quite correctly say 'yes I'm going to Birmingham and I will bring my family with me '.

In another context - 'yes I'm going to the party and I will bring the beer'.
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Well, I would use "take" there.
"I'm coming to Birmingham and I will bring..." would sound right to me.
As I said, this seems to me to be more preference than rule.
Despite the accusations, I'm no grammar expert - it's just the more glaringly obvious ones that get me going.
 
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saintKlopp said:
Well, I would use "take" there.
"I'm coming to Birmingham and I will bring..." would sound right to me.
As I said, this seems to me to be more preference than rule.
Despite the accusations, I'm no grammar expert - it's just the more glaringly obvious ones that get me going.
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Sounds right to me but then I didn't say suarez was coming to Birmingham just saying I couldn't see him bringing the wife that couldn't wait to get out of rainy England back here now she's had the fine living in spain
 
saintKlopp said:
Well, I would use "take" there.
"I'm coming to Birmingham and I will bring..." would sound right to me.
As I said, this seems to me to be more preference than rule.
Despite the accusations, I'm no grammar expert - it's just the more glaringly obvious ones that get me going.
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I should be a grammar expert having fairly recently got a BA(Hons) and MA in Literature and having had to almost memorise 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' but away from academia I write in my own style, Oxford commas be blowed <laugh>
 
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