The phrase "have a poor memory" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who does not have good recall abilities. Example: She always forgets her keys and misplaces important documents - she definitely has a poor memory.
But critics say that test merely rewards criminals who have a poor memory for detail.
"I have a poor memory for distress," she wrote, "but can recall discontent and raging fevers of impatience".
A scholar of mountaineering literature, he once wrote a paper that examined why climbers have a poor memory for pain and usually ignore turn-back times at great peril.
Waldrop is present for the small wonder of Wozzeck's routine, has stored it in his memory (while "many names that might have found a place in this account have dropped somehow out of mind" — Waldrop also claims to have a poor memory; perhaps the book is classified as fiction as an acknowledgment of its fallibility).
Given that humans seem to have a poor memory for where they have looked during difficult detection tasks, it seems clear, in principle, that technology could improve performance.
Saying the club was a regular stop for him and his wife, Plant claimed to have a poor memory and said he had no recollection of seeing Spirit. .
Consequently, we have a poorer memory for other-race faces, and are therefore less likely to recognise them or to distinguish between them.
She has a poor memory, and to check against it she carries a memorandum book, in the house or out.
You write in your book about Montaigne, who confessed to having a poor memory and to forgetting about books he himself had written.
Instead he recycles lots of familiar observations: that George W. Bush got off to a wobbly start as president but found his voice in the wake of Sept. 11; that the commander in chief has a poor memory for facts and figures; that his White House prizes loyalty, discipline and punctuality.
