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  • Hi. I'm Gill from www.engvid.com,

  • and today we're going to have a look at the verb "to get",

  • and the different uses of it, or some of the different uses. It's used all the time

  • and in different ways. So, there are too many uses to look at in one lesson, so there will

  • be another lesson on this as well. So, look out for that one, too. Okay? So, the verb

  • "to get", it's a very, very common English word, used all the time in many different ways.

  • So, let's start by looking at some very ordinary uses of the verb "to get".

  • So, you could "get wet". If you're out in the rain: "Aw, I got wet in the rain." So: "got", past tense. Or

  • you can say: "Don't get wet. It's going to rain." So: "to get wet". "To get thirsty".

  • If you haven't had a drink for a long time, you get thirsty, you need a drink.

  • "To get annoyed", you can get annoyed, angry about something or about someone, the way somebody

  • behaves. Okay?

  • You can get... "Get tired". If you've been working all day, you get really tired late

  • at night and you need to go to bed. You can "get drunk", which means drinking a lot of

  • alcohol so that you're sort of reeling around, and maybe falling on the floor. Not a good

  • idea. So, you can "get drunk". Or you can say to somebody who's going to a party:

  • "Don't get drunk." Okay? "You'll feel terrible the next day. Don't get drunk." So: "drunk", it's

  • always to do with alcohol. You can say: "I have drunk a class of water." That's just

  • the past tense of "to drink", but in this sense, it's to do with alcohol. Okay, you

  • can "get married". Well, you can "get engaged", "get married", "get divorced", all of those

  • for "get". Use "get". Okay? You can "get the flu" or "a cold", when you're sneezing and

  • you're feeling really ill, the flu.

  • You can "get the sack", which means losing your job. It's a colloquial expression that

  • means to lose your job: "the sack". A sack is like a... Something, a container, a sack

  • made of cloth, usually, or plastic, you can have a plastic sack. But the... It's just

  • an expression for losing your job. I think you're given a bag with all your belongings

  • in to take away with you so that you don't leave all your stuff in a drawer somewhere

  • in the office where you don't work anymore, so that may be the reason. "To get the sack".

  • And then, having gotten the sack, you can "get a new job", where hopefully things will

  • go better. "To get a new job". And "to get ready", to get ready, put some nice clothes

  • on to go out to a party. Get ready to go to work, get ready to do something. Okay. So,

  • that's all very, very simple uses of the verb "to get".

  • Right, so now let's have a look at some imperatives, which means telling people what to do or what

  • not to do sometimes. They're like orders: "Do this, do that." Okay? So, and some can

  • be quite rude, so you have to be careful how you use them because telling people what to

  • do isn't always very nice. So, if you say to someone: "Get out!" that is very strong.

  • If you ask them: "Get out". If someone walked in here now, I might say... Well, I wouldn't,

  • but I could say: "Get out. We're filming."

  • But I would probably say: "Oh. Do you mind? We're filming at the moment, so please, would you mind leaving the room?"

  • But a rude person

  • would say: "Get out! We're filming." So: "Get out!"

  • "Get in", maybe your friend is... Has arrived with the car, ready to go on a trip, and she's

  • waiting for you to get into the car as well, and she's in a hurry, so she might say:

  • "Get in, get in, we're ready to go. We don't want to be late. Get in!"

  • "Get off", so again, in the car: "We need to get off now." We can go, we can get off.

  • Or if someone is standing on a chair, and you... They're spoiling the chair with their

  • dirty shoes, you can say: "Get off the chair. Get off the chair. You're making it dirty."

  • Okay? "Get up", if you're in bed in the morning, you have to get up, get dressed, get washed,

  • all of those things. Get ready to go out. "Get up". If you're on some very nice grass

  • that you're not supposed to be on, somebody might shout: "Get off the grass!" because

  • you could be spoiling it, and turning it into muddy tracks.

  • And this one is quite a nice one, because this... These words appear on a card. You

  • can buy a greetings card from a shop that says: "Get well soon!" If you're ill, if somebody

  • is ill either at home or in hospital, and you feel sorry for them, you want them to

  • get better, you can send a card that says: "Get well soon." Okay?

  • Right, then finally then, just a few other expressions using "get". "To get the credit"

  • for something. If somebody has done something really good, hopefully they get the credit

  • for doing it. People recognize that they have done something good. Sometimes somebody else

  • gets the credit for what you've done, and that is not very nice. They... Or they take

  • the credit. But "to get the credit" means you are recognized as the person who has done

  • something, usually something good.

  • "To get"... If something "gets on my nerves", the nerves of your nervous system, your feelings,

  • your sensations, your nerves, you know, how you feel, how you react. If I said... If there

  • was some music playing next door very loud and it had been going on for an hour, I would say:

  • "That music is really getting on my nerves. It's really annoying me. It's irritating me.

  • I don't like it. It's upsetting me." So: "to get on your nerves". Okay?

  • "To get through the day", sometimes the day that you're living is rather difficult, but

  • you keep going and you say: "I've got to get through the day." If I can just get through

  • the day, I'll be okay. Then I can go home, relax, watch some television, whatever. Just

  • get through the day. It's a sort of endurance test sometimes to get through. Right.

  • "To get over a bad experience". If you've had a bad experience, you have to recover

  • from it, and it might take a bit of time. So that's called "getting over something",

  • "to get over a bad experience".

  • Just an ordinary one, really: "to get the car going". Sometimes a car won't start very

  • easily. You turn the key in the ignition and the engine won't start, so:

  • "Oh, no, we're going on holiday. We've got to get the car going, otherwise we won't be able to go."

  • So that's usually something you have to do, "to get it going".

  • "To get something done", to do a job. "Get something done". "To get up", to get up in

  • the morning from bed or to stand up from a chair, maybe. Oh: "to get out of bed", right.

  • This is an interesting one: "to get into conversation with somebody". If you're learning English,

  • it's a good idea to... And there are English-speaking people around, it's a good idea to get into

  • conversation with an English-speaking person to give you some practice. And even if you

  • don't know them, you can just start chatting, and that's called "getting into conversation",

  • to start a conversation. Okay?

  • And then finally: "to get out of something" is when there's something you don't really

  • want to do. Maybe you've been invited to a friend's party, and you know you don't enjoy

  • the parties, unfortunately, at your friend's house, you don't like the other people who

  • come, so you have to think of a reason why you can't go and say:

  • "Oh, sorry, I'm doing something else that night." You get out of it, you find an excuse,

  • a reason why you can't go.

  • Okay, so that's just a few. There are lots more, but that's just a few uses of the verb "to get".

  • So, if you'd like to test yourself on these, there's a quiz on the website, www.engvid.com.

  • And if you'd like to subscribe to my YouTube channel, that would be great.

  • And see you again soon. Bye.

Hi. I'm Gill from www.engvid.com,

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如何在英語中使用動詞 "GET"? (How to use the verb 'GET' in English)

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