Can i just rant

[Arrivapercy]

That no, you didn't bring the house with you....

You bought it.

The past tense of the verb "to buy" is "bought"

NOT BROUGHT.

"Brought" is the past tense of the verb "to bring".

Unless you've carried it with you its unlikely you've brought it. I have to bite my tongue not to comment every time on here. Every time. My poor tongue.

I was just considering starting a thread on this. I don’t understand why people confuse these! You wouldn’t say “I’m bringing a house,” damn it.

Exactly.

No you are wrong- the past tense of bring is brung! 😁

Fully with you on this. BRing, BRought.

As its pedants corner…
…the title needs a question mark.

Sorry

.... and 'i' should be a capital letter.

I absolutely agree.

Perhaps you should ask MNHQ to correct your title to a capital "I" though. 🤣🤣😉

Gifted annoys me more.

Borrow me something
Recommend me something

It sounds so uneducated.

I don't understand, in what context would anyone say bring a house with you? Is this referring to another thread?

This subject comes up loads but in real life I've never heard anyone mix up brought and bought, is it really that common a mistake?

Too much time on your hands

What does that mean?

I'm sure you CAN, but whether you MAY or not is a different matter

A lot of people post about things they’ve ’brought’ on MN. And I for one have heard people say it in real life too.

Splitting an infinitive 🤔😳🤯

Ok but I still don't understand when "bring the house with you" would ever be said, maybe I'm being a bit dense or missing what @Arrivapercy means, can you put it in a sentence for me?

Posting in a zone for pedants will always be tricky.
I agree that "i" should be "I" and that the title needs a question mark.
"its unlikely" also lacks an apostrophe.
All that notwithstanding, confusing "brought" and "bought" irritates me too.

Agree, bit confused about the reason for op's ire.
Maybe it's just us!

That’s the entire point of the thread!

People confuse ‘bought’ and ‘brought’ and say they ‘brought’ things eg ‘I brought my house’.

It’s nonsensical including because it makes no sense when you change the tense to present. Yet people keep making this mistake in past tense.

HTH

It's nearly as annoying as 's/he borrowed me some money' as opposed to leant?

... and the split infinitive too - so many mistakes - and it should also be an interrobang too rather than a ? mark

FloofPaws

I have a great fondness for the interrobang; is that wrong of me?!

Lent, not leant! 🙂

To avoid confusion, as the poster wasn't discussing the 40 day period prior to Easter, perhaps it should have been "It's 'lent', not 'leant' (or 'Lent')"?

It's rapidly becoming an Ourobouros of Pendantry here. 🐍

Edited very quickly to insert the second set of quotation marks...

Well that was not clear to me at all, might be easy to understand if the question is why don't people know the difference between bought and brought imo

Why confuse matters with changing the tense and including a house 😁