TO GET

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin. I hope you are doing well, and I hope you had a great weekend. 

Today's lesson is the first Daily Vitamin in a series of five lessons this week that are dedicated to the very useful English verb TO GET.

We'll start with the most typical or obvious use of GET, when it means to obtain or receive. Consider the following examples.

Example 1:
Olga got a new computer for Christmas.
OR
Olga's father got her a new computer for Christmas.

Example 2:
Several young volunteers got the chance to meet Prince William at a recent charity event in London.

Example 3:
Jack sold his old car this week. I heard he got 3,000 euros for it; but I don't think it was worth that much.

Now I encourage you to write your own sentence or two with the verb TO GET. You can post your sentence(s) on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) and we will give you feedback about your writing as soon as we can.

Tomorrow we'll look at how the verb TO GET can combine with other verbs to mean 'to become' or 'to begin to be'.

I hope the rest of your day goes well!