hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
number one English Fluency Guide and in
this video we'll be talking about the
most powerful verb in English especially
for English language learners and how to
master it will begin by talking about
the top four verbs and then we'll review
this number five is the most powerful
one that's really the one we want to be
focusing on and that's because the top
four are quite self-explanatory
now this just means that they're easy to
understand and use so these are be do
have and say now you might listen or
look at different lists of verbs online
and say okay like maybe this verb is
maybe number two or number three
it doesn't really matter the actual
specific frequency that these appear
there will be in conversations i've
already used both of these are all of
these when I'm speaking right now but be
do have and say these are all things
that are quite easy to talk about so be
this is just identity like this is a pin
we're talking about what is this is that
a pen or is it not
this is just to be now do is something
that we use it just means to have some
action take place so when we're doing
one thing and want to do something else
often when we can't explain it like i do
karate or I do some other thing if we
can't really explain what the particular
verb is it just means to do some kind of
actions who do something to make a
motion or to move in some way now if you
have something this also has a number of
different uses but typically have just
means a to physically have something or
to figuratively have something so i
might maybe have this pin but the idea
in my mind i also have that thing so I
can't physically hold the idea but i
have that thing as well and also to say
something this is commonly used as well
but really there are a lot of different
meanings that are confusing for people
so what I'm saying hello I'm just again
some words are coming out of my mouth
and I am saying something to say
something so be do have and say these
are all maybe like the top four most
common verbs that people use in
conversations and none of them is really
too difficult to understand but the next
one the most powerful one
most important one that really you
should focus on again because the others
are so easy is get get really is one of
the most common again it's probably
number five Number six but it doesn't
really matter like how frequently it
appears the thing is that it's really
the number one verb that can be tricky
for people because of its many different
uses
so if you don't really understand what
all of these uses mean together the verb
can be really tricky for people but if
you understand what they do mean and
that's what we'll cover in this video
then you develop much more confidence
about using them so let's look at a
couple of different uses of get first we
have the idea of just receiving
something so maybe I get a present from
my friend for Christmas or I get a new
car or even i get an idea so it can be a
physical thing that we received from
someone or it could be even just like a
like a non-physical things like I
receive again an idea I got a great idea
when i was at my friend's house
yesterday or I got a present from my
grandmother for my birthday so we're
talking about moving from one place to
another but now i am holding that thing
I got something I got this pan i got
this you know particular thing because
someone gave it to me i received this
thing now we can also talk about another
meaning of get as buying something so if
i buy something from a store it's also
moving from the store to me it's moving
from one place to another but now I hold
that thing because I paid some money
from him
so yesterday I got this pan at a store
or maybe I got like an even bought a new
car i was able to receive something from
somebody else but I paid money for that
thing
so again you're talking about receiving
something either because you paid for it
or because someone just gave it to you
as a gift
next we can also get the opportunity to
do something or get the chance to do
something so when you have the
opportunity right now that this is
something you have and this is easy to
understand so right now you have the
opportunity to practice speaking or to
practice something to learn more about
English with me but if you're talking
about getting the opportunity usually
means you haven't received it yet you
might get the opportunity to take a nice
vacation or you might get the
opportunity or get the chance to work at
a different office
get a new job now you yourself can also
get from one place to another
maybe I'm getting from my house to my
job so i just got home where I just got
to work we're talking about arriving at
a particular location maybe I need to
get to the airport after school or I
need to get home where I need to get out
of the rain
I'm getting from one location into
someplace else so it's raining outside
right now and I need to get out of the
rain and into my house to get out of the
rain
next you can even get an idea from
someone else that you're trying to
understand
so let's say a friend of mine is
explaining to me and I say well I get
yeah I guess I get that I understand
what you're saying so instead of saying
you understand it's a more native and
conversational and faster way to say
that you get an idea haha i got what
you're saying
so you can even very quickly to say I
got it so for friend of yours is
explaining something we're at the
factory and he's trying to show me how
to do a particular thing and i can say
oh yeah yeah I got it
so do you understand how to do something
do you get it do you get it so he's
trying to transfer something from
himself to me so he's trying to teach me
something or he's trying to explain the
explain to me how to do something do you
get it
yes i got it and the last example we'll
look at with get is to get someone to do
something for you
now this is even more complicated but
it's still the same idea you're
receiving the opportunity for someone
else to provide something for you so
this is a really great way of describing
instead of you cutting your own hair
maybe I got my friend to cut my hair for
me so I got someone to do it again i
paid them or I convinced them somehow i
asked them nicely or I said hey if you
cut my hair I will cut your hair in any
of these cases again we're convincing
someone else to do something for us i
got my friend to do that maybe I got my
friend to fix my car so I asked him to
fix my car or I got my friend to teach
me surfing or I got my my mother to
teach me how to do some cooking so I got
my mother I really wanted to learn how
to make her special dish that she makes
every friday so i said hey can you teach
me and if I want to describe that I can
see all i got my mother did
teach me something now here's the tricky
thing instead of trying to remember all
of these different uses
typically you would see this in a text
book it's like okay you're the different
uses of ghetto i'm going to write these
down on a white board behind me you can
get this and you can get that now get
means by get means to arrive at a
particular place get means to to get an
idea or to understand something or to
have another person do something for you
if you try to remember all of these
different uses it will just confuse you
in conversations but I want you to get
excited again to receive that excitement
to to understand this and really the way
to master this here's the simple way to
master this really powerful verb and
it's just to understand the idea of
possessing something so it's like have
it's actually like have very similarly
but you're thinking about getting to a
particular place or possessing a
particular thing now the easiest way to
think about it is if I get a pin the pin
is not with me right now but it's moving
into my possession and now I hold it so
i have got the pin i got this pen
yesterday
it doesn't matter how I got the pin so
you don't have to remember okay can use
it for buying something or if you find
something on the street or whatever it
doesn't matter how it comes to you
you've got it now I've got the pin so
right now I've got the pin
maybe I could get something else I could
get an idea from somebody or i could
understand something again it still
means it's coming to me and now I hold
that thing now I possess it but get it
kind of implies like it's moving from
one place to another but now you possess
it now in the same way you can think
about you
possessing a location now just like when
you're arriving at a particular place
maybe I arrived at an airport I got to
that Airport so it just means i'm
getting that location where i am so I'm
possessing that little place where I
happen to be even if i don't own the
airport
it doesn't matter because my physical
body is taking up that space so that's
why we use get and we'll cover this a
little bit more now very quickly with
some phrasal verbs
the first one is to get at if you're
trying to get at the meaning of
something maybe the meaning is almost
like in a different location even though
it's a figurative
idea so I'm here and I don't quite
understand something but I ok now i
understand something i get at the idea
i'm moving to something and now I
possess it so that idea of moving to
something or approaching something
traveling and then taking that position
again this is something i possess now so
i get a tour I'm trying to understand
the meaning of something now I get at
what you're trying to say next to get
down now this is a very simple one if
you think about being in a position up
here so right now I'm standing on a desk
or somebody is standing maybe on a beach
and then they moved down to a lower
position they're getting down into some
other location they are getting down
getting down so instead of descend I
want to get from the second floor down
to the first floor
so if i call a friend of mine i say hey
can you get down here
I really want him to come down quickly
so I'm saying can you take the position
down here with me
can you get down here next another
common one to get over someone to get
over someone now if you think about
maybe in your own life you have a
relationship with something at first the
relationship is going really well but
then maybe something happens and you
break up with that person this is
another phrasal verb that doesn't use
get but it just means two separate to
break up like you're breaking something
into two different pieces so we're
breaking something up and i'm moving
away from that person in some way like
usually mentally and physically but i
can't forget about that person i'm not
able to get over them in that way we
take an idea like trying to jump over
something that's in your path trying to
pass something but you can't get over
that thing to you you're here but you
want to take this position here so you
can't get over it to get over that thing
and finally to get thrown by something
or to be thrown by something now this
just means that again you're confused by
a particular idea maybe I was thinking
about something I got thrown by it so
you got you you received something you
received an action of being thrown I got
thrown by something so i'm trying to
hold onto an idea but the idea was too
difficult i couldn't understand it was
too confusing and it threw me so I got
thrown by that particular thing always
remember
that with get it's actually a really
simple verb but it's so powerful for the
for the learners that know how to use it
and this just means understanding that
it's the idea of possessing something so
it's not just by or find or do anything
it's the idea of receiving something
however you have it but now you have
this thing whether it's a physical thing
a figurative thing or even a space that
you occupy well I hope you have enjoyed
this quick lesson and I hope you feel a
bit more powerful now understanding what
get really means if you have enjoyed
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