Typical mistake: "Let's have some more drink, and I'll bring you back home."

It is not always easy to choose corrctly between these words. Basically, bring is used for a movement towards the person who is speaking or writing; take (in one sense) is used for movements in other directions.

• Come over here and bring your book.
• I'm bringing my wife back home from hospital this morning.
• I once had to take a group of students from Rome to Berlin
• Let's have some more drink, and then I'll take you back home.
• Thank you for your bringing me home.

When the speaker and listener are in two different places (for instance, in a telephone conversation), bring is used for movements both towards the speaker and towards the listener. The same is true in letters.

• "Come and stay for the weekend and bring your wife."
• Thanks, I'd love to. Can we bring the children too?"

Sometimes the speaker use bring for a movement, not towards the places where he is, but towards a place where he was or will be.

• Jack brought some new designs to the office this morning.
• Come to the theatre with us tonight, and bring Mary.

BRING UP and EDUCATE

We generally use bring up (and the noun upbringing) for the normal and social training that children receive at home. Educate and education are used for the trainning (especially intellectual and cultural) that people get at school, university, etc. If we say that a child is badly brought up, we mean (for example) that he is rule or selfish. A well-educated person went to a good school and university.

• Lucy was brought up by her grandparents and educated at the convent school.
• Would you rather be well brought up and badly educated, or the opposite?

(Practical English Usage- Michael Swan)