Cheers, mate!
oh mate, I've gotta tell you about last night. It was a crazy night!
Right, so I'm at my house. I'm getting ready, get dressed, get my shoes on.
Get out of the house and get myself a taxi, to get to the club
I got to the club about 10 - 10:30
I got free tickets to this cub from a guy I'm getting to know at work
He's a nice guy, he's new, but,
Last time I spoke to him he was like "Mate, you're getting fat!"
And I'm like "Mate! I'm getting pretty offended by what you're saying here!"
Do you get me?
Anyway, once we get into the club
I get to the bar, get myself a drink, i'm getting my money out, right?
And I get kissed by this girl next to me. And she is gorgeous
She kinda looks like Amy Winehouse
But anyway as she's putting her hand in my pocket, I'm like "This is getting a bit crazy here!"
"Get your hand out of my pocket! This is getting a bit crazy!"
But at the same time I'm thinking
You don't get this opportunity very often, do ya?
It's not often you get kissed by a beautiful girl who looks like Amy Winehouse
Do you get me?
Then I remember "Oh I've gotta go! I've got a meeting in the morning!"
So I tell the girl "I've gotta go, I'll see you later!"
I got her number anyway
Get a taxi, get back to my hotel
I'm at my hotel room
I get out my keycard, but it's not there!
It's missing
Do you know what I think happened?
I think it got stolen by that Amy Winehouse girl
Sometimes I just don't get it
So we all know that "Get" basically can mean receive
or obtained for example you could buy something
Yeah I can't draw cats
You could say:
so of course this is the most common way of understanding "Get" it means receive
maybe you bought the cat. Don't buy cats! Always adopt!
So "get" can mean "buy"
But not just "Buy", maybe someone gave you the cat as a present maybe it's your birthday
I'll be an amazing birthday present for my birthday please get me a cat but
that's just one meaning of get and there are many many meetings of get if you add
a preposition with get you have a phrasal verb and get appears many times
in phrasal verbs in fact it's so complex we need a new video to explain them here
are just five and we explain those five in this video on my belly if you've
already seen this video let's continue another meaning of get is catch and we
say you catch the bus
so in this case you could say I got the bus in the past or I get the bus every
day in the present tense for example and not just for a bus you could get a taxi
get the train get a plane or boat any public transport the boats public try
guess boat was a public transport on me
he's sick he has a cold so we can say he caught a cold in past but remember we
can use get to replace catch so as a sentence I got a cold
that's a few meanings of get here are some more so you got the bus you are on
the bus
you're going to meet your friend and your friend wants to know what time will
you arrive and you say this he could say i'll arrive in 10 minutes but in natural
speech that's not how we say it we use get but you can't just say I'll get in
10 minutes
that doesn't sound good you must have a destination after get so i'll get to the
office i'll get to your house or get to the pub or just i'll get there I'll get
there in 10 minutes to clarify I'll get in 10 minutes knew how that's another
meaning of get now i'm teaching it
I understand why you hate it so much and then finally you get there you meet your
friend and your friend says wow you got fat that's not nice but what does he
mean you got fat
what word could we replace this with
became you became that or the opposite you became skinny you got skinny if you
win the lottery you get rich if you lose all that money in a casino you get poor
again so there's another meaning of get become in a more complex sentence you
can use get like this
let's imagine you're walking with your friend and you're talking about Game of
Thrones or walking dead and you're annoying friend who always tells you
what happens in the episode you haven't seen yet they say oh my god you know got
killed last night in the episode of walking dead hair so now you hate your
friend but also who got killed
why did he say it like that well in this case get replaces the verb be in a
passive sentence know if you've seen our lesson on the passive you know that to
make a passive sentence we need the verb be and the verb three or past participle
however you want to call it
those make a passive sentence for example i was born in London
that's a passive sentence the verb be i was born bear or born that's over three
so the verb get replaces the verb be so really he could say movement was killed
him walking dead now you should know that this is a more informal way of
using the passive voice and in some cases you can't use get in a passive
voice to replace B let me give you an example i was born in london i can't say
i got born in London that's not just no but if you say for example my car was
stolen i can save my car got stolen
that's okay it sounds a bit more informal but it's okay
also you can't use it with stative verbs it won't make sense for example a
sentence like everyone knows thomas stupid that's an active sentence
let's change it to passive it is known that Thomas stupid
that's passive now let's change the verb be forget it gets known that Thomas
stupid now that doesn't make sense so stative verbs
no but a movement an action verb like I got arrested
that's fine but just remember it sounds less formal
that's it weird right and in some common expressions it means to start being
something very similar to become but we use it in such expressions like get
married get divorced get fired get engaged
get lost these gets mean you start being that thing so when you get married
it means you start being married and now hopefully you won't get lost because
we've explained the many uses of get another way to use get is with
possessions for example i can say i have blah blah i have a cat that's a
possession and that's fine but it's not very common to say I have a cat
it sounds a bit too formal today it's much more common to say i have got a cat
or contracted to I've got a cat that's positive
what this in- the- goes with this verb i haven't got a cat a common mistake I see
with this is when people say I have a cat
they think the negative is I haven't a cat
it is the negative but it's that sounds really old-fashioned it's much more
common to say I don't have a cat or I haven't got a cat if you're talking
about possessions in the negative so when you say have got it's about a
possession
I have got that's a possession don't confuse it with i have got to do
something that means something different
what does it mean let's have a look when you must go you have to go there some
obligation you can replace that obligation word master have 24 have got
to again the contraction is better
I've got two so again you could say I have to go I must go
sure that's fine but again I've got to go is more common so that is for an
obligation and you notice that that is a positive sentence but be careful because
if we change this to a negative i haven't got to go
it doesn't mean the same as I mustn't this removes the obligation
so in other words the option is there
I could go I could stay but I haven't got to
there's no obligation for me to go i have got to go
I must go I haven't got to go i have a choice in a sentence
can you stay or have you got to go no I haven't got to go i can stay it's a
choice
I've got a meeting so I've got to go we have another video explaining more about
the pronunciation of got to click on my bending to see that so do you get it now
oh what's that another meaning of get if i ask do you get it or if I say oh I get
it
what do I mean
so you want to say oh I understand now then you'd say oh I get it but be
careful you can't use it for everything that would be too easy for example you
can say I understand five languages
I don't understand five languages that's no but you can't say I get five
languages
no it means you understand now you finally oh so it's more like you
understand now
oh I get it so now i think you get how to use get in many situations
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