Causatives: REMIND means cause to REMEMBER

Many languages have only a single word that covers the meanings of remember and remind so speakers of these languages often have trouble knowing when to use each in English and produce errors like the following:

• INCORRECT: Remember me to buy some bread on the way home.
• CORRECT: Remind me to buy some bread on the way home.

The relationship between these two verbs is the same as that between the verbs kill and die. Just as the verb kill means cause to die, the verb remind means cause to remember. Here are some examples:

• That smell reminds me of our holiday in Tuscany.
  [The smell caused me to remember the holiday]
• I had forgotten about the bread until Jill reminded me.
  [Jill caused me to remember the bread]

• I remember it snowed more when I was a kid.
  [No mention of something causing the memory to be recalled]

ADVANCED:

A conversation at noon

Tenses and aspect are among the most difficult things to learn in any language, so I've made a pretty chart to simplify the whole thing. It includes an example of a conversation that includes each form at least once.

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UPDATE:
It helps if you look at which time phrases you can use with each form (left side of the chart). For example:

The race started at 10am. [the simple past]
The race has started now. [has is present tense, so it is about the past of the present (i.e., a time before now)]
The race had started at 11am. [had is past tense, so it is about the past of the past (i.e., a time before 11am)]

If it is now 12pm, you can't say:

WRONG: The race has started at 10am. [has is present tense, but 10am is in the past, so it doesn't make sense]

If you want to attach a time phrase to start instead of have, use the simple past form.