Use of get in English grammar

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Use of get in English grammar

Introduction

Get is a very important verb in English language grammar. We will see the use of get in English sentences with proper explanations and examples.

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Use of get in English sentences

We will see here the use of get in English grammar and in English sentences.

What is the use of get in English grammar

Get is used to show that someone is hired to do something for somebody.

We can use get for telling that we hired some service for doing our work or for our purpose.

Use of get in English grammar

In English grammar, get is used as the main verb in a general sense to mean to receive.

For example

1)I get something daily.

2)She got a new job.

Another use of get is to hire somebody for doing something.

We will see the simple formula for this type of use.

Subject +get + noun+ v3+ …….

Using this formula we can use get to show that someone is hired to do something for somebody. Even we can use this get+ v3 structure in place of passive voice sentences conveying the same meaning.

The following examples will make it clear to you.

examples of get+ v3 in English

1)I cut my hair today.

This sentence means that the action is done by me.

See the next sentence.

1)I got my hair cut today.

This sentence means that I haven’t done the action of hair cutting but I hired somebody to cut my hair.

2)We have painted our house this year.

2)We have got our house painted this year (By a painter or somebody).

3)Mother gets study done from children.

4)The manager gets work done by the workers in the company.

5)Mother is getting the pots and pans cleaned by the maid.

6)Father got the car washed from the servant.

7)I had got my clothes stitched. (from the tailer)

8) We have got the scooter repaired. (From mechanic.)

9)She had got home cleaned.

10)They will have got the job done from employees.

These are some of the examples of the use of get in English grammar sentences.

Conclusion

We can conclude that get is used in two ways. The first meaning of get in general sentences is to receive and the meaning of get +v3 is used for getting something done from somebody.

We have explained all these structures in detail with examples. I hope you will find it helpful. Also, there are some phrasal verbs of get. We will see them in a separate article.

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