The Main Uses of the Verb TO GET in English

hello welcome back to our weekly live stream hi everybody my name is alicia and today 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 lots of small grammar points so as always uh throughout today's lesson please feel free to send your example sentences in the chat i will try to check live i can't get them all but i will try to check them all so please send them through also as you join please don't forget to like and share the video so that other learners can find today's lesson another quick announcement is as always we have free things available for you in the link below the video on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook if you're watching on instagram please check youtube or facebook to get the free pdfs vocabulary and phrase pdfs many topics i will share later but you can download these for free from english class 101.com okay other announcement uh i shared 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hello everybody thanks for joining and on facebook i see ruby and veth sandon hello sa baraka hello everybody thanks very much for coming today we're talking about how to use the verb get how to use the verb get so uh i'm going to do basically as usual three different uh 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 okie dokie so the first use i want to talk about for today is using get to mean receive to mean receive so when we use get 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 get 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 buy 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 uh going to this gonna uh on to one more example uh 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 uh have you ever gotten anything for free have you ever gotten anything for free gotten we use like the past we 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 uh 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 great point uh 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 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 uh on facebook taya says i got new shoes yes exactly very nice uh 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 uh 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 uh one more small point well big point actually uh 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 or the cafe and you say hey give 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 let's get her something for dessert so in this case the person who's 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 uh 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 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 too uh paulino hey there's a member there get me my pen perfect get me my pen great great okay let's take one quick break uh and then we'll go to part two for today's lesson part one 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 uh 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 get is quite useful and the other one i wanted to show this one when you're shopping for food as well so this is a really nice one i think a nice pdf to practice today's grammar point with so check these out you can download all of these from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook they are free you need an account yes but the account is free ah and some of you have said i don't know how to get it free when you make your account go to the very very very bottom of the page after you make the account after you sign up there's a link at the bottom of the page to go to your free thing i saw some of you had questions about that like it says like i have to make a subscription or something so you can go to a link at the bottom of the next page to get your stuff for free okay so that is part one for today's lesson i don't see any questions yet so i'm going to continue on to part two so if you have not please make sure to like and share today's video so other people can find the lesson uh i'm going to go to the next part for today then so part two will be 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 plus adjective get plus 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 uh 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 mary means like uh in a in a relationship in 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 uh 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 okay 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 becomes 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 uh conversation practice okay some examples from all of you um ahmed 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 um some other examples of this uh roberto on youtube says my son gets happy when he plays on the internet great okay mamudi says i get angry when my daughter doesn't do her homework very nice good examples everybody uh other examples ah um 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 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 become very nice very nice example of everybody uh okay so i guess let's see maybe i'll go to one more break i think and then we'll talk about the last part the last part's kind of a grammar heavy point so one more quick break i will share a couple more things that i did not share earlier and maybe i haven't shared with you guys yet uh i'll show a couple more pdfs that i don't think i've talked about before on live stream so if you have not checked these out please do anyway over here a couple more uh 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 uh for this here but on the back again lots and lots of words for this says going to the gym but in it's for exercise as well so this is a situation where you use uh 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 uh or talking about your pet's behavior you will use get 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 check out those pdfs you can find them from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on facebook instagram can't see your comments live very sorry but if you want the pdfs please check youtube or facebook alrighty let's continue to the last point for today the last part for today uh part three is using get with passive sentence structure so this will be a grammar a grammar heavy point also please don't forget if you have not already please make sure to like the video and share the video so other people can find today's lesson we really appreciate it okay so let's take a look at our very grammary our grammar heavy uh portion for today we can use get in passive sentence structure so uh 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 result of a situation so you'll know then if you've studied uh passive that we use to be to be in grammar uh 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 replace 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 uh up until now maybe a bit before uh 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 uh 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 surprise like shock 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 yeah 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 got communicates surprise 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 because like the situation the context tells us it's a 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 to 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 uh i haven't seen any yet so send me some examples of passive passive sentences so a bit of passive and active practice uh d valerian 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 uh was not got in that case because uh 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 like that's a 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 uh 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 uh 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 was that a challenge maybe uh i don't know i don't see one i got accepted to a really good private school yes that's a nice example bori okay uh 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 okay uh i don't see other examples what about get to say that you understand something got it yeah nice question miguel yeah uh 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 uh let's get working let's get working out let's get working out you could use that again it's like you're at the gym uh 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 than it is to say the specific activity name so uh 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 uh to begin our activities generally okay i have to finish oh my gosh the time just looked at the clock holy cow okay so i have to finish up there for today but i hope that this was helpful uh in learning a bit about how to use get and how to identify how to understand different meanings of get in different sentence patterns so if you missed today's lesson don't worry this video has been recorded you can watch it on youtube or on our facebook page at any time and if you have any questions please feel free to send them in the chat i will check them after today's lesson i will try to answer somehow somewhere sometime but uh for now i have to finish for this week uh we'll be back next week same time same channels uh next week will be october 17th wednesday october 17th wednesday october 17th uh wednesday is that the 17th i don't know wednesday october 17th i think 10 p.m eastern standard time the topic for next week's lesson will be business english idioms business english idioms many of you have requested idioms and many of you request business and presentation english so i'm going to put them together i'm going to choose some common uh idioms that we use in business and in presentation situations so please join us next week for that topic should be a good one uh and of course don't forget to download all your free stuff if you have not already there's lots of new stuff if you have not checked in a while so take a look at this all right with that i will say goodbye to you all for this week thank you so much for joining us thanks if you're watching on instagram too uh thanks very much for liking and sharing the video as always we really appreciate it i hope that you have a nice week and enjoy your weekend we'll see you again soon bye-bye you

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