thanks for your reminding reminder? | WordReference Forums You can't say 'Thanks for your reminding' and not finish with at least a direct object That is it's possible to say just "Thanks for your reminding me " when both participants have common knowledge of the subject of the reminder However, 'Thanks for your kind reminder ' is fine So, it's up to you to decide which one to use
remind of or about? - WordReference Forums If I'm not mistaken "to remind of" has another meaning, and it's used when you think that something has already happened to you before, or you've seen this somewhere
Im reminding you vs. I remind you - WordReference Forums Yes, it's transitive, but "remind' generally* needs a person as an object, as in the eariler examples If it's just you that is thinking of these beautiful and horrible moments, you can say:
remind me OF or remind me TO | WordReference Forums Remind me to give it to you - you are talking about the future Remind me of giving it to you - You seem to be asking your listener, contrary to normal human logic, to remind you of something that happened in the past and that you quite obviously remember yourself
Need reminding - WordReference Forums In "They need reminding", reminding is a gerund, meaning something like reminders Unlike swimming and dancing, reminding is passive in meaning, because remind is a transitive verb and no direct object for remind is present That is "They need reminding" means something like "They need to be reminded (perhaps repeatedly) "
reminder or reminders - WordReference Forums Good question It is really only one reminder about three things If you sat them down on three different occasions, it would be three reminders but you are reminding them, once, about three things I would most naturally say, "Children, I have three things to remind you about" Or, "I want to remind you of three things"
reminding someone about a favor you did for him I'm looking for a sentence or an expression which means "reminding someone about a favor that you did for him before" (used to show disapproval) For example: A: Hey Jack, you should never forget my help You know last year I helped your dad a lot B: "Yes Thank you very much " A: I did your dad a great favor last year " B: "Yes I know Thank
gentle reminder - is this phrase friendly? - WordReference Forums Yes, perhaps the problem isn't the phrase itself but that it was used too much and used unthinkingly (often in the subject line) The other thing is that I think describing a reminder as gentle comes off better from somebody other than the person doing the reminding: how does the person reminding know that it will be taken gently? In that way