Use this phrase when someone asks you if you’ve heard of something, and you want to say that you don’t know about it or don’t remember it. Use this phrase to describe a moment when you couldn’t remember or think of anything. It’s common for people’s minds to go blank during moments of pressure, like tests and presentations. This expression is often used to get a few more moments to remember the word or name you’re trying to think of. Use this phrase when you are trying to remember something (usually a word or a person’s name) but you can’t quite say it yet. Use this phrase when you remember something, but not very well – for example, you remember the general experience a little bit, but not the details. Use these phrases if you’re not 100% certain that what you remember is correct – and you want to communicate this small uncertainty. Use these phrases for people, things, or experiences that were so strong that they will never leave your memory! #3 – If I remember correctly… / As far as I can recall… #2 – I’ll never forget… / I’ll always remember… I was going to make hamburgers, but then I remembered that she doesn’t eat meat – so I made a salad instead.
#I remember every time tv
I remember that TV show, I used to watch it all the time. I remember him – we met at a conference last year. I remember spending every summer at camp when I was a child. There are a number of ways to use “I remember…” If the usage were a common dialect somewhere, I'd probably pick it up over a weekend trip to the place.Download 500+ English Phrases #1 – I remember… In the original order, I feel that I have to hold a present tense clause in my mind and then "back edit" its tense to the future upon receiving the future tense clause.)Īt the same time, I'm able to "train" myself to accept the second without a whole lot of difficulty. (The rearrangement "I will remember you every time I listen to the song" continues to look fine, though: the inheritance of tense goes left to right, following the direction of speech. The more I re-read the first one, the more I want to insert "From now on, " at the beginning to soften the change in tense, which seems more and more abrupt. If you stare at these two sentences long enough, you may find yourself changing your mind! The first one will start to look awkward, while the second starts to look normal:Įvery time I will listen to the song, I will remember you. This "propagation of tense" is not a general rule it seems to apply to clauses dependent on a main future tense clause. Whereby the first clause is expressed in the grammatical present tense, but inherits the future tense semantics from the "will* in the second. So it is a rather a "special case" that we can have:Įvery time I listen to the song, I will remember you.
Here, if either verb is changed to present tense, without the other, it is ungrammatical. He will do that every time.Īlso, if the tense is past, note both clauses must be in the past tense:Įvery time I listened to the song, I remembered you. Oh don't pay attention to his weird response.
Although the superfluous "will" sounds unnecessary, this doesn't seem like a case of bad grammar, but a matter of euphony.Ī clause can give a quantifier like "every time" or "whenever", and use future tense.
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