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25 Dec 2017
- Japanese
- Ainu Near fluent
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English (UK)
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Danish
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English (US)
Question about English (UK)
What is the difference between I don`t forget walking along the river and I remember walking along the river ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between I don`t forget walking along the river and I remember walking along the river ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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25 Dec 2017
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- English (UK)
Both mean the same thing, except "I don't forget walking along the river" makes no sense, it's not grammatically correct, the tenses are mixed up. "Don't" implies a more present/future tense, for example "Don't turn on the television" or "Don't eat the cake".
So if you want to say it in that sense, you wouldn't use "don't", you could use "didn't" but that would change the whole point of what you're trying to say because I'm guessing you're trying to say that you recall walking along the river. If you used "didn't", it would imply that you had to do something (walk along the river) and you remembered to do it, and in order to make that grammatically correct, you would also change "walking" to "walk"
— "I didn't forget to walk along the river".
Long story short, as you're saying that you've walked along the river before, and you remember it, you would say "I remember walking along the river".
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- English (UK)
Both mean the same thing, except "I don't forget walking along the river" makes no sense, it's not grammatically correct, the tenses are mixed up. "Don't" implies a more present/future tense, for example "Don't turn on the television" or "Don't eat the cake".
So if you want to say it in that sense, you wouldn't use "don't", you could use "didn't" but that would change the whole point of what you're trying to say because I'm guessing you're trying to say that you recall walking along the river. If you used "didn't", it would imply that you had to do something (walk along the river) and you remembered to do it, and in order to make that grammatically correct, you would also change "walking" to "walk"
— "I didn't forget to walk along the river".
Long story short, as you're saying that you've walked along the river before, and you remember it, you would say "I remember walking along the river".
- Japanese
- Ainu Near fluent
Hmm,Thank you.
How about '' I have not forgot walking along the river.''?@ennynnynny
How about '' I have not forgot walking along the river.''?@ennynnynny
- English (UK)
@kaaapaaa That's grammatically incorrect.
You would say "I have not FORGOTTEN ABOUT walking along the river"
I hope what I said before made sense, by the way :)
- Japanese
- Ainu Near fluent

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