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

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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?
 
None of them leads to an understandable English sentence.
 
I can get B to work. The rest are wrong.
B: "You should remember posting [those letters] for me.
 
Letter B is the more appropriate answer.
You should remember posting for me.
 
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".
 
"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.
 
Letter B is the most appropriate answer.
You should remember posting for me.

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