Uses of GET

Get + adjective Before an adjective, get usually means become. My hands and feet were getting cold. It is getting dark. She is coughing. I think she is getting ill. He got angry when I told him I had crashed the car. We will get married next Summer. Get can also be followed by object + adjective. Can you get the kids ready for school? Get + noun/pronoun When get is followed by a direct object, it usually means receive, fetch, obtain, catch or similar ideas. He has got a prize. I get a headache whenever I watch TV. Get can be followed by two objects. Can you get me a drink? Get + adverb particle or preposition When get is followed by an adverb particle or preposition, it refers to a movement of some sort. I get up at 6 oclock. When I went to see him, he told me to get out. Get + past participle Get can be followed by a past participle. This structure is often used to talk about things that we do to ourselves. I only take two minutes to get dressed. Get + past participle is also used in passive structures. My watch got broken while was playing. Get + object + past participle This structure can be used to talk about things that happen to us. I got my car stolen last week. We got our roof blown off in the storm.

Uses of GET
GET alone Meaning To receive To earn To bring or fetch To understand To be affected by, or catch To catch or take To communicate with To have a strong effect on To capture or seize To pay back To induce, stimulate, cause, make someone do To contact To make, score To acquire To arrive To become GET used in a phrasal verb Phrasal Verb To get about (or around) To get ahead To get away To get back To get by Meaning To be socially active To be successful To escape To recover or retrieve To survive financially Example Tom really gets around, doesn't he? It's very difficult to get ahead nowadays. The thief got away from the police. I got my books back from Tom.
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Example I got a book for my birthday. I get $7 an hour. Can you get that book for me? Do you get the lesson? He got a cold last week. I got the 4.55 train to New York. I got him by phone. That film really got me. The police got him at the station. We'll get them! My wife got me to pay attention to the speaker. She got a cold from Tom. She got 29 points that day. They got a new pet. She got home at 7 o'clock. He got annoyed when he heard the bad news.

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Phrasal Verb To get in To get into To get off To get on with To get out To get over To get through To get up To get out of

Meaning To enter a car, train etc. To be accepted To exit from a train, bus etc. To have a good relationship with To leave To recover from an illness or bad occurrence To succeed in an examination, test etc. To get out of bed To avoid doing something, especially a duty

Example Come on, get in! Let's go. He got into the university of his choice. Jerry got off at 52nd Street. I really get on well with Janet. I got out of class at 3.30. He got over his operation very quickly. That was a difficult test to get through, wasn't it? I got up at 7 this morning. She got out of the washing-up every day, even when it was her turn.

Get - Colloquial usage Verb Gotta Have got to To get down to business Meaning To have to (US) To have to (US) To begin working Example I gotta go it's late. I've got to hurry up! Tom arrived at 12 and immediately got down to business. Let's get together this weekend.

To get together To get it together

To meet

To improve one's performance Come on! Get it together, you are playing horrible tennis.