You should remember..........for me.

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hoangkha

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Hi! I have seen this sentence.
- You should remember..........for me.
A. post
B. posting
C. to be posting
D. to have posted

I choose D. Am I wrong, please?
 

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None of them leads to an understandable English sentence.
 

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I can get B to work. The rest are wrong.
B: "You should remember posting [those letters] for me.
 

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Letter B is the more appropriate answer.
You should remember posting for me.
 

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I agree with Raymott that B would lead to a possible sentence if we added something but "You should remember posting for me" is not grammatical. At the very least, you would need to add "it" or "them" after "posting".
 

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"You should remember posting for me" is not grammatical.
Sorry, I disagree. An action like posting doesn't need an explicit object to make a sentence grammatical - though I agree there would be an implicit object, since 'post' isn't intransitive.
"You wash and I'll dry. Can you dry [the dishes] for me?"; "My arm's broken. Can you drive [the car] for me?";
"Can you cook/clean for me?"
B is possible in this way; the others aren't, except perhaps C "to be posting", where again, there would be an implied object. But C is a far less likely sentence, making B the only reasonable answer. "To post" is also possible.
 

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Letter B is the most appropriate answer.
You should remember posting for me.

Neil, please read this extract from the forum's Posting Guidelines:

You are welcome to answer questions posted in the Ask a Teacher forum as long as your suggestions, help, and advice reflect a good understanding of the English language. If you are not a teacher, you will need to state that clearly at the top of your post.
 
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