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2 We can use bring for a movement to a place where the speaker or
listener was or will be. Compare:
‘Where are those papers | asked for?’ ‘| brought them to you when
you were in Mr Allen’s office. Don’t you remember?’
| took the papers to John’s office.
Can you bring the car to my house tomorrow?
Can you take the car to the garage tomorrow?
> The difference between come and gois similar. (See 83.)
For other uses of take, see 337; 338.
72 (Great) Britain, the United Kingdom, the British
Isles and England
Britain (or Great Britain) and the United Kingdom (or the UK) include
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Sometimes Britain or
Great Britain is used just for the island which includes England,
Scotland and Wales, without Northern Ireland.)
The British Isles is the name for England, Scotland, Wales, the whole of
Ireland, and ali the islands round about.
Note that England is only one part of Britain. Scotland and Wales are not
in England, and Scottish and Welsh people do not like to be called
‘English’.
THE BRITISH ISLES
