Learn 50 "GET" Phrases in English - Fast and Easy!

Get is one of the most common verbs in the English language and we use it in a ton of different ways. It can be used for receiving things, for emotions, for changes, for relationships, for travel, and lots more. Today, you'll learn 50 super useful collocations with get. These are many of the most common ones used by native English speakers. I've organized them by category so they're easier to remember and use in your own English. If you want to download this lesson, including example sentences for all 50 collocations, click on the link in the video description. Enter your email and I'll send you a free PDF of everything in this video with examples. Our first category is using get plus an adjective to describe a change of state like I'm getting tired. This means I'm becoming tired. Some other common ones are get ready, get angry, get cold, get sick, get nervous, get dark, get lost, and get hungry. We also use get for changes in relationship status, like when two people get engaged, meaning they promise to marry each other. Get married and get divorced. Next, we have get plus a comparative adjective to describe how something changes over time, like get better or get worse. My English lessons and courses help your English get better every day. He went to the doctor because his cough was getting worse. It was changing. It was becoming worse. A few other common ones are get bigger, get smaller, get cheaper, or get more expensive, get easier, get harder. You can put any comparative adjective after get to show a change over time. Get is also used for buying, obtaining, or achieving things. I could say, I got tickets to the concert, meaning I bought them. Get a computer, get new shoes, get something for a good price. Those are all things we buy. We also say get a job. She got a job at a hospital. A job is not something you buy, but it's something you achieve. You didn't have it before and now you have it. You can get an apartment, meaning rent it. When you finish college, you get a degree. At work, you can get a promotion or get a raise. Those are things you obtain or achieve. We also use get when we ask someone to take something and bring it to us, like, can you get my jacket from the front closet? Sometimes we'll use go get and then the object. Can you go get the toolbox from the garage? Similarly, but a little different, get can mean to receive when someone gives us something. So, we get gifts or get presents. I got a nice gift on my birthday. We get a package or get a shipment. Get a letter, message, email, or call. Receiving forms of communication. We can also get an answer or get a response to a question we've asked or a message we've sent. In school, we get grades. We can get feedback and get support from the teacher. You might get an award, get a prize, or get a certification. After you finish a lot of Espresso English courses, you can get a digital certificate. We say get an opportunity or get a chance to do something. And get permission meaning to receive permission. When it comes to travel and going places, get is a very common informal way to say arrive at a place. For example, my kids always get to school on time, meaning they arrive at school on time. So, we can talk about getting to work or getting to the office, getting to bed, which is the same as going to bed, getting to the airport in time for your flight, and getting to London when you are arriving there. In all those examples, I said get to the place. But there are a couple words with which we never use to, and that is get home and get there. I usually get home from work by 6. What time will we get there tomorrow? No need for two with home and there. And finally, we use get with a lot of verbs in the past participle. also meaning to become or to change status or when something is done to you. We get dressed in the morning. That's an action we do ourselves. But we also get hired for a job, get paid and get fired from a job. That's something the company does to us. If you apply to a college, you would get accepted by that college. Hopefully, you don't get caught doing something wrong. If you're a criminal, you might get arrested by the police. You could also get hurt or get killed. Those are two very common collocations. And if you get stuck in your English learning, I'm here to help with my lessons, ebooks, and courses. Now you know 50 different ways we use the word get, and you can see how mastering collocations like these can really improve your fluency. Make sure to download your free PDF by clicking on the link in the video description so you can see all 50 collocations used in sentences. If you enjoyed this lesson, then you'll love my 1,000 collocations in 10 minutes a day ebook. It's packed with common word combinations just like these with quizzes to help you remember and use them correctly. And if this lesson was a little too easy for you, but you want to take your vocabulary even further, then you'll enjoy my advanced vocabulary and collocations course where we learn highlevel word combinations that make your English sound quite impressive. You'll find the links to both in the description. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson. >> [music]