VOOZH about

URL: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/refresh-your-memory.465373/

⇱ refresh your memory | WordReference Forums


Menu


Install the app
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.

refresh your memory

bosun

Banned
korean
What does it mean by " refresh your memory"? Can I make a sentence like

Doing your homework will help you to refresh your memory. ( I mean students can remember things better and locate what is confusing to them more easily by doing homework. Is it right???)
"Doing your homework will help refresh your memory" is best put.

To refresh your memory: It's when you learned something before, maybe a while ago and so might have forgotten some of it. Then, time passes and when you see or study that same information again - it refreshes your memory or makes you remember the things again

So I don't think 'refresh your memory' really fits here. Maybe you're looking for "Doing your homework will make learning easier", or "doing your homework will help you learn better" ?
It would fit the context better if you said something like, "I always review the lessons and my homework before a test; this helps to refresh my memory."
I agree with Joelline and Wongfei, although the practice of doing homework isn't usually associated with refreshing one's memory, in my way of thinking. It cements things in memory more than it refreshes one's memory. I may be straining at gnats here, but it just sounds marginally off to me.

More commonly, in a courtroom, after taking the witness stand, Mrs. Jones says she can't remember what she was doing on the night of August 13. The prosecution holds up a photograph of her in bed with her lover and says: "Does this refresh your memory?"
I agree with Joelline and Wongfei, although the practice of doing homework isn't usually associated with refreshing one's memory, in my way of thinking.

Good example, Coiffe! I agree completely that doing homework makes little sense when speaking of "refreshing" the memory. That is why I suggested, "I always review the lessons and my homework before a test; this helps to refresh my memory."
CAn somebody refresh our memory? Can we refresh our memory ourselves? For example, can I say

1. We forgot the rules over the weekend, so the teacher had to refresh our memory of the past tenses.
2. I forgot how to use the gerund, I need to refresh my memory of the rules.
Back
Top Bottom