Name: The many meanings of "Get" - Learn English grammar
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oh mate, I've gotta tell you about last night. It was a crazy night!

Right, so I'm at my house. I'm getting ready, get dressed, get my shoes on.

Get out of the house and get myself a taxi, to get to the club

I got free tickets to this cub from a guy I'm getting to know at work

Last time I spoke to him he was like "Mate, you're getting fat!"

And I'm like "Mate! I'm getting pretty offended by what you're saying here!"

I get to the bar, get myself a drink, i'm getting my money out, right?

And I get kissed by this girl next to me. And she is gorgeous

But anyway as she's putting her hand in my pocket, I'm like "This is getting a bit crazy here!"

"Get your hand out of my pocket! This is getting a bit crazy!"

You don't get this opportunity very often, do ya?

It's not often you get kissed by a beautiful girl who looks like Amy Winehouse

Then I remember "Oh I've gotta go! I've got a meeting in the morning!"

So I tell the girl "I've gotta go, I'll see you later!"

I get out my keycard, but it's not there!

I think it got stolen by that Amy Winehouse girl

So we all know that "Get" basically can mean receive

or obtained for example you could buy
something

so of course this is the most common way
of understanding "Get" it means receive

maybe you bought the cat. Don't buy cats!
Always adopt!

But not just "Buy", maybe someone gave you the cat
as a present maybe it's your birthday

I'll be an amazing birthday present for
my birthday please get me a cat but

that's just one meaning of get and there
are many many meetings of get if you add

a preposition with get you have a
phrasal verb and get appears many times

in phrasal verbs in fact it's so complex
we need a new video to explain them here

are just five and we explain those five
in this video on my belly if you've

already seen this video let's continue
another meaning of get is catch and we

so in this case you could say I got the
bus in the past or I get the bus every

day in the present tense for example and
not just for a bus you could get a taxi

get the train get a plane or boat any
public transport the boats public try

he's sick he has a cold so we can say he
caught a cold in past but remember we

can use get to replace catch so as a
sentence I got a cold

that's a few meanings of get here are
some more so you got the bus you are on

you're going to meet your friend and
your friend wants to know what time will

you arrive and you say this he could say
i'll arrive in 10 minutes but in natural

speech that's not how we say it we use
get but you can't just say I'll get in

that doesn't sound good you must have a
destination after get so i'll get to the

office i'll get to your house or get to
the pub or just i'll get there I'll get

there in 10 minutes to clarify I'll get
in 10 minutes knew how that's another

I understand why you hate it so much and
then finally you get there you meet your

friend and your friend says wow you got
fat that's not nice but what does he

became you became that or the opposite
you became skinny you got skinny if you

win the lottery you get rich if you lose
all that money in a casino you get poor

again so there's another meaning of get
become in a more complex sentence you

let's imagine you're walking with your
friend and you're talking about Game of

Thrones or walking dead and you're
annoying friend who always tells you

what happens in the episode you haven't
seen yet they say oh my god you know got

killed last night in the episode of
walking dead hair so now you hate your

why did he say it like that well in this
case get replaces the verb be in a

passive sentence know if you've seen our
lesson on the passive you know that to

make a passive sentence we need the verb
be and the verb three or past participle

those make a passive sentence for
example i was born in London

that's a passive sentence the verb be i
was born bear or born that's over three

so the verb get replaces the verb be so
really he could say movement was killed

him walking dead now you should know
that this is a more informal way of

using the passive voice and in some
cases you can't use get in a passive

voice to replace B let me give you an
example i was born in london i can't say

i got born in London that's not just no
but if you say for example my car was

that's okay it sounds a bit more
informal but it's okay

also you can't use it with stative verbs
it won't make sense for example a

sentence like everyone knows thomas
stupid that's an active sentence

let's change it to passive it is known
that Thomas stupid

that's passive now let's change the verb
be forget it gets known that Thomas

stupid now that doesn't make sense so
stative verbs

no but a movement an action verb like I
got arrested

that's fine but just remember it sounds
less formal

that's it weird right and in some common
expressions it means to start being

something very similar to become but we
use it in such expressions like get

married get divorced get fired get
engaged

get lost these gets mean you start being
that thing so when you get married

it means you start being married and now
hopefully you won't get lost because

we've explained the many uses of get
another way to use get is with

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