When do you use bring and when do you use take?
It depends on your point of view. We use bring to indicate motion
toward the place of speaking or the place from which the action is
regarded. Thus you normally take checks to the bank and bring
home cash, although from the banker’s perspective you have brought
checks to the bank in order to take away cash
When the point of reference is not the place of
speaking itself, you can use either verb depending on the context. Thus
you can say either The labor leaders brought their requests to the
mayor’s office or The labor leaders took their requests to the
mayor’s office depending on whether you want to describe things from
the point of view of the labor leaders or the mayor. Perhaps for this
reason, the distinction between bring and take is
sometimes less clear than you might expect. A parent may say of a child,
for example, She always takes a pile of books home with her from
school, as the parent imagines the situation from the child’s
viewpoint. This usage may sound curious to those who are accustomed to
observe the distinction more strictly, but there is really nothing wrong
with it.