For native speakers,can I say "remove your car" ?

Question

I was taking to another guy at work and he told me that I can`t say remove your car,I should have said MOVE your car.
What is right?or both are correct?

Answer 1

The guy at work is right. It's much more common to say "move your car" (which implies moving it from one place to another) than it is to say "remove your car" (which essentially means vanishing it).

Answer 2

"remove your car!" is grammatically correct, you are demanding that the other person remove his car from the location where he has no right to park it. You won't hear a native say this often. It sounds demanding an arrogant. In the U.S. you would most often hear it stated "move your car!"

Answer 3

Well, it depends on the situation.
If the offending car was blocking your right of way, then you should tell the offender to please remove his car.
However, it sounds like you were just having a casual conversation with a colleague right? Then move your car is the correct term to use.

Answer 4

BOTH are correct. However, "Move" is the common expression. People will look at you (and a few may laugh) if you say "Remove".

Answer 5

Removing something would be to get rid of it completely. Moving it is just putting in in a different place, so he would be right.

Answer 6

move is right but remove sounds cooler it sounds more like a threat when you say REMOVE YOUR CAR. so keep saying remove thats cool

Answer 7

That sounds either very formal or totally wrong to me. You can say "move your car." It sounds more casual.

Answer 8

I think you would say "remove" if you say it as "remove your car FROM (my property, that parking space, etc)".