| bring | Bring means 'come with sb/sth' (NOT 'go'): 'Could you bring me a glass of water, please?' 'I'll see you tomorrow at the club, and remember to bring your tennis racket!' |
| take | Take means 'go with sb/sth' (NOT 'come'): 'You take the shopping indoors and I'll put the car away.' 'When I go on holiday, I like to take a good book with me.' You usually take someone home, to school or to a cinema/restaurant/ airport etc (NOT bring/lead/send/carry): 'Lucy took us to Stratford to see a play.' 'If you need a lift to the station, ask Peter to take you.' |
| lead | If you lead someone to a place, you guide them there by walking in front of them, holding them by the arm, etc: 'Some blind people like to be led across the road.' 'The children led me through the wood to their secret hiding place.' |
| send | If you send a person somewhere, you tell them to go there. You do not go with them: 'My company sends one of us to Singapore every six months.' |
| fetch | If you fetch something, you go to the place where it is and come back with it: 'We waited at reception while the porter fetched our luggage.' |
| carry | If you go somewhere with something in your hands, in your arms, on your back etc, you carry it: 'She carried her chair into the garden and sat in the sun.' 'In some countries women carry their babies on their backs.' |
| collect/fetch | If you collect or fetch someone (from somewhere), you go there and bring them back with you: 'I have to collect the children from school at 4 o'clock.' |
| pick up | If you pick up someone (at a place), you go to the place where they are waiting, usually in a car or other vehicle, and then take them somewhere: 'I'll pick you up at your house just after seven. That gives us half an hour to get to the stadium.' |