The Main Uses of the Verb TO GET in English

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we’re going to talk about how to use the

verb get in this lesson I’m going to

cover about four different ways to use

the verb get and we’re going to cover

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about how to use the verb get to how to

use the verb get so I’m going to do

basically as usual three different kind

of focus points for today so I’m ready

to get started I think I’m going to

share the video and then I’m going to

start with the first use of get for

today’s lesson okey-dokey

so the first use I want to talk about

for today is using yet to mean receive

to mean receive so we use yet to mean

receive it is used with a noun

so when you look at this in a sentence

and you want to understand the word get

the meaning of get in this specific case

look at the word after get so when we

use get plus a noun so like an object

for example yet has the meaning of

receive to receive something so some

examples I got a new computer so here

get is in past tense got and a new

computer is my noun phrase I got a new

computer so this means I received a new

computer we can replace get in this

sentence with the verb receive and the

meaning stays the same

however using receive sounds too formal

so we use get in everyday conversation I

got a new computer another example this

one a future tense expression I’m gonna

get some winter clothes I’m gonna get

some winter clothes

so again we’re using get and in this

case it’s like I’m going to receive or

we can understand it to mean like bye as

well so this means something is going to

come to me or I’m going to go out and

like purchase something this is the

feeling some object is going to come to

me so in this case the meaning is maybe

a little more like buy something or

purchase something but eventually it’s

going to be mine my thing so I’m going

to get some winter clothes that’s going

to this is gonna onto one more example

we got a lot of extra time for our

project we got a lot of extra time for

our project so again

past tense past tense here we got

meaning we received and then a lot of

extra time so in this case it’s not a

physical object in this case we’re

talking about time so we got extra time

for our project for our project again

receive one more last example I want to

talk about this word have you ever

gotten anything for free have you ever

gotten anything for free gotten we use

like the past please that’s the past

participle form of the verb you can see

it’s in this have you ever pattern so

this is something we use a lot in spoken

English we don’t use it as much in

written English because this sounds

quite casual but you may hear this a lot

in TV and in movies have you ever gotten

anything for free okay so this is the

first use of receive if you have

examples please feel free to send those

in the chat I will try to check those as

well

Ramat says we got a lot of extra time to

write an article good or Raj says I got

a new car from my friend so a great

point from Raj on the YouTube chat so I

got a new car or I got something

when you want to talk about the source

so I got a new computer use from so not

buy I got something from my friend or

from this store so when you want to talk

about a person that you received an item

from use it from if you want to talk

about a store I got a new computer at

ABC store so at should be used for like

the place you purchase something the

place you bought something from is used

for the person a person that you got

something from so a couple small points

there okay uh I don’t see other ones yet

someone says I got a new phone good good

I got a new phone nice one on Facebook

taya says I got new shoes yes exactly

very nice

Rudra says I got a reply from my friend

so a couple points a lot of you actually

don’t forget your article yeah I got a

for singular I got a new phone I got a

reply from my friend I got a new

computer and so on so don’t forget your

article there we love our articles okay

let’s go then to one more small point

well big point actually the second kind

of thing I want to talk about here this

note when uh when there’s a person so

when I say person I mean me him or her

after the verb get and before your noun

the verb get has the feeling of bring so

please bring something not like receive

but please bring so some examples of

this hey get me a drink

hey get me a drink so native speed hey

give me a drink is what this sounds like

so after the verb get we have me a

person there’s a person there get me and

then our noun phrase get me a drink

so not get a drink get me a drink in

this case it means please

bring me a drink or hey bring me a drink

so it’s like this verb receive applies

to this person there’s a connection to

the person here so hey bring me a drink

this is the meaning of this sentence so

you might hear this a lot in your if you

are in like a situation where something

is close to you like you want something

but it’s across the room or it’s in

another room in your house or in your

office you might ask someone near you

hey get me that thing or in this case

you’re in a bar maybe your friend is

going to the bar the cafe and you say

hey get me a drink hey get me a drink so

this is a casual way to ask for someone

to bring you something another example

let’s get her something for dessert

so in this case the person who is going

to receive the thing is her some woman

in this case so let’s get let’s bring in

other words let’s bring her something

for dessert so we’re making a suggestion

here let’s do this thing finally can you

get him his phone please

so this is a request this involves three

people here yeah so the speaker can you

get him his phone please that means will

you please bring him his phone so there

are three people involved in this

situation so this is a good hint to look

for after the verb get do you see a

person there a month so there’s a good

chance it means bring not to receive

okay so that is part one for today’s

lesson about get to mean receive and to

mean bring in some cases to Paulino hey

there’s a member there get me my pen

perfect get me my pen

great great ok let’s take one quick

break and then we’ll go to part two for

today’s lesson part 1 and let’s see we

talked about using receive a lot so you

can use this meaning of get in work

situations I’ll show you over here I’ll

show you

I always show like the business one I

know lots of people are studying English

for work and for business so check this

one out for some verbs and expressions

that you can use with get also shopping

shopping is another very important

situation where you use the verb get a

lot so check out the back of this PDF

there’s a lot of verbs to practice here

for shopping this is a situation where

it gets is quite useful and the other

one I wanted to show this one when

you’re shopping for food as well so this

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about how to use get to mean become how

to use get to mean become so just as

with the first part where we had this

nice like hint in our sentence where get

plus noun means receive in this case get

adjective get + adjective means become

become so that’s when get means become

so let’s look at some examples first

they’re going to get married they’re

going to get married so married is our

adjective so I this this is a case where

it’s like you could change you could

substitute the word get for become like

they’re going to become married so marry

means like in a in a relationship and an

officially recognized relationship so

they’re going to become married is

correct but we usually say they’re going

to get married so this use of get means

become another example wow it got cold

outside wow it got cold outside

so again past tense and the word

following get or got in this case cold

is an adjective

so this adjective tells us that this use

of get means become become wow it got

cold outside means wow it became cold

outside but we do not say became it

sounds too formal

another example my boss gets angry when

we make mistakes my boss gets angry when

we make mistakes so here gets I’m using

gets because the subject is my boss my

boss so she or he gets angry angry is my

adjective so we know that get means

become in this case my boss gets angry

when we make mistakes ok one more my

computer is getting slower and slower my

computer is getting slower and slower

here I’ve used it in the progressive

form or the continuous form my computer

is becoming slower and slower so that

means like now every day

every day it gets a little slower it

becomes a little slower so we’re using

the progressive form to mean become

again here so a note about this use

because this is something I hear a lot

from learners yes you can use become in

all of these sentences but the problem

is that become sounds very formal like

if I say wow it became cold outside it

sounds really really like funny it

sounds way too formal so we don’t use

become in everyday conversations like

I’ve got here so become is grammatically

correct in these sentences but it just

sounds too formal we don’t use become or

became or becoming in cases like these

yes there are some situations where

become sounds good so if you’re in a

like a formal situation you’re giving a

presentation or you need to sound very

polite for some reason then yes become

is more appropriate but in everyday

conversations use get use get to mean

become so this is maybe one point to

think about when you’re when you’re

speaking when you’re doing everyday

conversation practice okay

some examples from all of you I’m a Oh

on Facebook says can we use get to force

someone to do something to express that

yes like I’m going to get my mom to sign

my paperwork yes you can use it I’m not

covering that use in today’s lesson but

yes that is also correct mmm some other

examples of this Roberto on YouTube says

my son gets happy when he plays on the

Internet great okay mom moody says I get

angry when my daughter doesn’t do her

homework very nice good examples

everybody

other examples ah someone bori on

Facebook says wow it got summer outside

summer is a noun we need to use an

adjective in this pattern Wow it got hot

outside hot is an adjective so don’t use

nouns

please use adjectives in this pattern

other examples hmm my dog got sick last

week good Alex that was a nice one my

dog got sick so sick is an adjective

this has the meaning of become very nice

very nice example of everybody okay so I

guess let’s see mmm maybe I’ll go to one

more break I think and then we’ll talk

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of a grammar heavy point so one more

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these out please do anyway over here a

couple more a couple more PDFs I thought

you could use for today’s topic first

one this is the sports and exercise PDF

so there’s vocabulary for this year but

on the back again lots and lots of words

for this says going to the gym but in

its for exercise as well so this is a

situation where you use you might use

get like I got tired or I got sweaty and

so on so this is a great one for

practicing today’s points another good

one is this is the cooking one I know

lots of you ask questions about food and

cooking again on the back here some more

useful vocabulary this one is another

example of a situation where we would

use get a lot finally pets as well so

when you’re talking about buying a pet

or talking about your pets behavior you

will

yet so there are many many different

real-life situations where we use the

verb get in these meanings and in other

ways too so if you want some ideas for

your practice

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last part for today part 3 is using get

with passive sentence structure so this

will be a grammar a grammar heavy point

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ok so let’s take a look at our very

grammar e our grammar heavy portion for

today we can use get in passive sentence

structures so for those of you who

remember your passive grammar practice

we use passive when we don’t know the

actor the person who is acting or we

want to focus on like the results of a

situation so you’ll know then if you’ve

studied passive that we use to be to be

in grammar and sorry in passive

sentences in passive grammar so when we

use get in this way we replace the verb

to be I’ll show you I’ll show you a few

examples here we replaced to be in these

types of patterns and the reason the

reason that we do this we might the

reason we choose get instead of to be is

to communicate surprise like there’s

some kind of unexpected situation we’re

surprised about something it’s often

negative but not always like up up until

now maybe a bit before it was used a lot

to express negative surprises but now

today we use it to just talk about any

surprise or any kind of unexpected

situation especially a situation that

happens directly to the speaker so

something happened to me specifically or

or to a person closely connected to me

so let’s look at some examples of this

here classic example my bag got stolen

my bag got stolen so maybe many of you

know my bag was stolen this is a classic

passive example sentence my bag was

stolen means like I don’t know who stole

my bag I don’t know so we use this

passive structure when I use got here my

bag got stolen

the feeling of negativity or surprise

becomes a bit stronger so yes my bag was

stolen and my bag got stolen communicate

the same idea yes but my bag got stolen

sounds a bit more negative a bit more

like unexpected it communicates that

look surprised like shocked a bit better

a bit more clearly my back got stolen

another example my roommate got fired

today my roommate got fired today so

again I’m using got in place of was my

roommate was fired fired also means to

lose someone’s job so you lose your job

or you lose now you lose your position

at work so my roommate got fired today

sounds even more negative than my

roommate was fired today

so this communicates that unexpected

feeling one example though this one’s

not negative this one is a positive

thing but it shares the use of God

communicates surprised it is I got

accepted to a really good university I

got accepted to a really good university

so here when I use got it has more of a

feeling of like an unexpected happy

surprise so we know this cuz like the

situation the context tells us it

happy situation so again I can use was I

was accepted to a really good university

is totally correct perfectly fine but

this sentence I got accepted to a really

good university this communicates that

surprise a little bit better so we can

use get to replace be in these passive

sentence structures some of you are

sending your examples too yes my bag was

stolen lots of people have those my bag

was stolen and my bag got stolen yes so

again both are correct this has a

stronger feeling of surprise okay so I’m

looking for some examples of this this

passive sentence structure I saw one

earlier I haven’t seen any yet so send

me some examples of passive passive

sentences so a bit of passive and active

practice de valor and says can I say the

building got built two years ago that’s

a situation where I would use was the

building was built two years ago I would

I would suggest was not got in that case

because there’s not a feeling of

surprise really at least for me maybe if

it’s a surprising situation I would use

got but I for me I don’t I don’t know a

situation where I like Menza that’s a

surprise like the building got built two

years ago that sounds like a general

fact so I would suggest using was was in

that case okay I will keep an eye out I

don’t see other examples okay so let’s

continue for now I’ll check the chat in

a minute I want to finish today’s lesson

with this note a note about these

expressions here because lots of you

have asked me over the years about this

point get to mean begin the process of

doing something so this is kind of

specific we use this

in these kinds of expressions so if you

watch our videos you know I start

usually videos by saying let’s get

started or I start the live streams by

saying okay let’s get started

so this get this is kind of this is kind

of a set phrase let’s get started or

let’s get going it’s like let’s begin

the process of this verb let’s begin the

process of starting or let’s begin the

process of going but these are kind of

set expressions let’s get started let’s

get going you’ll notice the word started

and going these have different endings

yeah so think of these expressions as

kind of set phrases and they mean like

begin doing this thing that comes after

again another example here is I need to

get moving I need to get moving so this

is an expression that means I need to

start the process of going to another

place I need to get moving I need to get

moving so this is one many of you have

asked about especially this one let’s

get started why do you say let’s get

started so it’s it’s kind think of this

as like a set phrase something that we

say at the beginning of an activity or

at the beginning of an event so I don’t

see any other examples of this passive

one because that challenge maybe I don’t

know I know I got accepted to a really

good private school yes that’s a nice

example of boring ok someone says let’s

get fishing you could say that let’s get

fishing if like you’re about to start

fishing like if you are at the lake or

you’re like you’re at the ocean and

you’re ready to begin you could say

let’s get fishing in that case perfect

sounds good so it kind of it depends a

little on the situation it’s like you’re

going to start something very very soon

and it’s very clear what the activity is

ok I don’t see other examples

what about get to say that you

understand something got it yeah nice

question me gay yeah let’s add that

here I I get it I get it

so this means understand this use of get

means understand I get it I understand

it we use it in present tense or some

people some people use got okay I got it

as well you can use that but you’ll hear

both of them I get it or I got it

means I understand I understand so this

is a casual way to say yes I understand

something nice example nice example okay

some of you have some interesting

examples let’s get let’s get working and

let’s get working out there let’s get

working out you could use that again

it’s like you’re at the gym

I feel like though as I said these are

kind of set phrases so when we’re going

to begin an activity it’s a little more

common just to say let’s get started

then is to say the specific activity

name so maybe keep that in mind don’t

don’t change don’t change your verb so

much it doesn’t it’s not something we

use with all verbs it’s something we use

to begin our activities generally okay I

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have to finish up there for today but I

hope that this was helpful in learning a

bit about how to use get and how to

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