Name: Learn 20 passive "GET" Expressions in English!
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Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "20 Passive 'Get' Expressions".

So, a lot of you guys have been asking me for more lessons on the verb "get" because

it is everywhere in English, so today I'm going to look at 20 expressions that you can

So, basically to do a passive sentence with "get",
you have: "get" plus a past participle verb.

In these sentences, "get" usually replaces
the verbs "to be" or "become". Okay?

So if you're speaking in the past with "was" or "were", you would just replace "was" or

If you're replacing the verb "I am", okay?

You can just say: "I get" in the passive sense.

I think it will make a lot more sense once you see some examples, because if you feel

confused right now, after the examples you will say: "That's better.

And it's really not so bad, so let's look at the examples.

We'll practice pronunciation in this lesson, too.

If someone asks you to do something, you get asked to do something.

For example: "I got asked to work overtime."

Someone asked me, probably my boss, definitely my boss asked me to work overtime, so I got

Now, remember, here "get" is replacing a form of the verb "to be" or "become".

So, you could say: "I was asked" in a standard past simple passive sentence.

But in speaking we often substitute "was" or "were", or other forms of the verb "to

All right, let's look at some more examples.

So, if you are blamed for something, this means someone accuses you of wrongdoing, of

So, for example: "She always gets blamed for everything."

So, if you know, maybe your sister, someone in your family, a co-worker of yours is always

accused of doing the wrong thing or is always accused of being the person who does the bad

thing: "She always gets blamed for everything."

I always got blamed for everything when I was a kid.

Usually it was my youngest sister, but just an example.

If you get caught doing something, this means someone saw you in the act of doing something,

and it's something you didn't want other people to see.

You'll often see this in, you know, crime dramas or movies where there's a bad guy,

and the police catch the bad guy or, you know, a video camera catches the crime in action,

So, if you are caught, you get caught, you are seen in the act of doing something that

So, for example: "The project got done on time."

The project got done by us-passive sense-on time.

"The project was done", "The project got done".

I did a video on, you know, getting dressed and...

"Get dressed" and "Get dressed up", yeah.

So: "I was getting dressed when you called."

Unless you're looking on your phone, in which case, just look at a notebook or something,

or keep watching on your phone because the rest of this stuff is visible.

"I was getting dressed, I was putting my clothes on when you called me."

So, in a political election: "She got elected President.

She was elected by the people to become President".

Just so we don't date this video I'm not going to mention the most, you know, recent political

situations happening in the world because we will all be angry, and we're not going

So, before you get married, usually one of the people asks the other person to become

their husband and/or become their wife, become their life partner, and they say...

You are engaged after, you know, you accept the ring or whatever else, Cheerio or other

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Learn 20 passive "GET" Expressions in English!

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