How do you use GET in English as a phrasal verb? | Go Natural English Lesson

Hey guys, how's it going? I'm Gabby Wallace and this is a go natural

English lesson. I got a question from one of you my youtube viewers

Can you please explain the verb to get as a phrasal verb?

you guys this is a great question because

native English speakers use the verb get

probably more than any other verb and we use get as part of a

Phrasal verb a phrasal verb if you don't know is a verb plus

Another

Preposition let's say a verb plus a preposition

that has

the same meaning as a more formal verb

Anyway, we use these forms a lot. So if you want your English to be more native-like

More fluent then this video is for you. And this may be the most comprehensive

video lesson

About the verb to get as a phrasal verb now in this lesson. I'm just going to show you

get

Plus a preposition

there are many many many more phrasal verbs using get

Plus another word, but we're just going to take a look at get plus a preposition today

This is still super comprehensive and a lot of information to take in

So if you want to start speaking more like a native speaker or just start to understand

Native speakers then pay attention because this video is going to help a lot

Oh

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You can just check out my free videos on YouTube as well. Alright, so let's take a look

at

get

Plus, oh my gosh. Where should we even start? This is like a huge map of possibilities

Let's just start here at the top. So I'm gonna tell you some examples to give you the idea to get out

For example get out of the bus

Here we could also say get out of doing something so to get out of

Means to avoid something. For example, I I

Love getting out of work early or I love

getting out of

Doing homework, right? So I'm avoiding something different than just get out. Get out means leave

Okay

Get off

Could also be get off the bus, right?

There's another phrase you might hear. Hey, where do you get off saying that?

that meaning is

Totally different like it's really an idiom. It's really slang. We don't use

Where do you get off?

We don't use that phrase unless we're really angry or annoyed at someone so that means you know

How can you say that? For example, it's kind of like you're shocked, right and angry

To get off the hook is another idiom

It means to be released from your responsibility

To get over let's say you broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend. You have to get over

him or her okay, that means to get past something it can also mean let's get

over like

Get over could be physically like, you know jumping over like oh, can you get over that?

Log, or can you get over that object?

Physically, you're stepping over something but we usually you know

If we're using it talking about a relationship it will be you know to emotionally get past something so hey

Stop being so sad. Get over your ex-boyfriend. All right

get on

so again get on the train or get on the bus or

get on

with could be hey do you get on with your

colleagues well

Do do you it could also be do get along

With so some of these phrases are used more in British English and others more in American English

So I would tend to say because I'm American I would say do you get along with your colleagues?

Well, but I think other people other English speakers might say do you get on with your colleagues? Well?

Get around so just

Get around could be physical as well

You know get around the barricade get around the wall get around the object

Also, it could be using a figurative sense like to avoid something

Get around to is different. So it means if you are delaying some action you're procrastinating

let's say I have

200 unread emails

When am I going to get around to reading them? Oh, I don't know it takes a long time. Okay get behind

So again, this could be physical you could get behind an object

But it also has another meaning as a phrasal verb. Let's say, oh I really love

this organization called

Pencils of promise. I think that's the name of it, right? It's an educational nonprofit

That that helps young people to be educated. So I get behind their mission. That means I believe in their mission

Get down again. It could be physical I get down from there. You're too high

You've climbed up a ladder you climbed up to the roof of your house could say that's dangerous get down from there

but if you say get down to

business

That's an idiom. That's pretty common. So, hey, let's get down to business. Let's get down to the lesson. Let's let's do it here

Let's get to the point

It's another idiom get to the point. Okay, get across again. It could be physical

Can you get across the river or is it too high or?

Get a point across so I hope that I'm getting the message across

To you in this video lesson. I want you to understand something

Get along with I actually mentioned that already do get along with your colleagues

Get along if you just say get along. I don't know why the famous phrase comes to mind get along little doggy

it just means

Get get out of here right go leave get along, but it's not a very common phrase anymore

So it's not really even worth remembering

get at get at means to let's say I'm getting at

The point that the verb get is used a lot. That's what I'm trying to suggest

I'm getting at the message here get is everywhere

Get by. Oh, how are you doing? I'm just getting by you know, everything's okay. It's alright

To get by it means so-so, you know, you're not doing great not doing bad. Just getting by things are alright

Get up

Wake up stand up get up. Get out of bed. It could be, you know, you're sitting down, but you need to stand up

So hey everybody get up

Get up

- I

Want you to get up?

-

Help me move some boxes

Okay, that's the purpose of getting up

Get up - trouble. Hey, don't you get up - any trouble means, you know don't get into any trouble

That's another one actually did I even write down into I didn't but that's another one get into

Trouble or get up to trouble

Same same difference

Get after

Now, I think this is more common in British English, but I'm familiar with it. I'm going to get after

my friend because

She never calls me. So I have some complaints right? I'm going to complain I'm gonna get after that person

get

between

Physically you could get between

two walls or get between two cars if you're parking but

using this as a phrasal verb you could get between

People in a relationship

so don't get between

me and my man you

You flirt

Right. I think you get the idea, right?

Get through so if I get through traffic

That means that I have successfully

Driven my car through a lot of other cars if I get through to you

that means that you have understood all of

These phrasal verbs with get it means to get through to someone is they understand you clearly?

Get in

To get in like let's say you want to go to a concert or an event or a

Nightclub or a restaurant you want to enter so you want to get in you want to gain?

Admission. Hey, did you get into the restaurant or was it totally packed? Oh I got in. It was great delicious

Where did we even start because I've been talking about the verb to get for way too long

And I can't remember where we started so get in get out of I think that's where we started, right?

I remember talking about get out of a responsibility. Oh, I like to get out of work early

I like to get out of doing homework

Okay, so I did my best to go through the examples that just came to mind as we were going here

But I'm sure that there are more examples that I may have forgotten

Just like oh there was one I was gonna share about get down

All right. So this is a fun phrasal verb because it means like to dance get down

Get funky

All right, so you can use that when you go out

this weekend and

If you find any other examples or if you want to ask a question

Maybe you're not sure if you can use get in a certain way

Please leave your comments and questions

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Thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you next time. Bye for now