31/120 mistakes to avoid during 2025

 31. Bring and take

 • Incorrect: I don't know what to bring when I leave for the conference. 

 • Correct: I don't know what to take when I leave for the conference.

 • Incorrect: I shall bring my wife with me when I go.

 • Correct: I shall take my wife with me when I go. 

• Incorrect: Take that book to me at my desk. 

• Correct: Bring that book to me at my desk. Use bring when something is being moved towards the speaker.

 • Bring me that book. Use take when something is being moved away from the area of the speaker. 

• Take that file with you. (Here the file is being moved away from the area of the speaker.)