Difference between Fetch and Bring

What is the difference between Fetch and Bring?

Fetch as a verb is to retrieve; to bear towards; to get. while Bring as a verb is to transport toward somebody/somewhere.

Fetch

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. The apparition of a living person; a wraith.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To retrieve; to bear towards; to get. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Example sentence: If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Bring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To transport toward somebody/somewhere.To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

Example sentence: Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.

We hope you now know whether to use Fetch or Bring in your sentence.

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