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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm let's talk about seven

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essential sentences using the word get

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if you've ever been confused about the

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word get you're not alone there are tens

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hundreds thousands maybe even millions

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of expressions that use the word get in

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english this can be bad news or

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overwhelming for english learners but

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guess what today i'm gonna share with

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you the most essential get expressions

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in my opinion these are the ones that i

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personally use the most and often on a

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daily basis so feel free to find more

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get expressions are plenty of others but

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today i want to share these seven with

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you so that you can memorize those

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sentences and use them yourself

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specifically in daily conversation the

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first get sentence is i got eight hours

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of sleep last night as a new mom i often

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talk about sleep with my other mom

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friends and something amazing happened

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recently my baby started sleeping longer

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especially at night which is beautiful

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so i often say how many hours of sleep i

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got so you could say i'm so tired i only

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got three hours of sleep last night

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you're talking about how much how long

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you slept but you can say get or got i

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got three hours of sleep i hope that i

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can get eight hours of sleep tonight the

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second sentence is it's easy to get

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distracted by social media i was talking

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with my friend the other day about

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facebook and instagram and even youtube

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it's so easy to get distracted because

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it's always there and we don't need to

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be bored anymore because there's always

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something to look at and that has pros

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and cons personally i don't like to get

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distracted by facebook or other social

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media so i often talk about this i'm

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trying to not get distracted I'm trying

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to focus of course

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you can add a lot of different words at

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the end of the sentence I'm getting

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hungry I got bored I got distracted you

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can use a lot of words at the end but I

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wanted to share this sentence get

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distracted with you because I feel like

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we can use this a lot in daily life my

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third sentence is he got home at 5:00

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p.m. every day he got home this

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expression to get home can be used a lot

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because maybe you go to school or you go

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to work or you just are doing some

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activities you're going to get home at a

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specific time and often we ask each

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other maybe family members or friends

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when are you gonna get home or what

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happened last night when did you get

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home

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so this fixed expression get home can be

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really useful I want to share a quick

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story so that you can remember this

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expression when I was younger my when I

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was a child actually my dad used to go

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to work early maybe 7 o'clock or so and

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he used to get home at 5 o'clock he had

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the choice to go to work later maybe 8

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o'clock and come home later so it was

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possible that he could get home at 6

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o'clock or 7 o'clock but he decided to

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spend more time with us as a family so

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he decided that he would go to work

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earlier and he would get home earlier so

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he could spend time with us so I want to

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know for you what time do you get home

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the fourth sentence goes with the

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previous sentence it is I got back from

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vacation yesterday but I'm still tired

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if you've ever experienced this let me

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know in the comments I know when I go on

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vacation sometimes I want to do stuff

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all the time and go see stuff and then

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when vacations over I feel even more

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tired than at the beginning so you could

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use this expression for whenever you get

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home so you can say I got back from

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vacation I got back from work I got back

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from plus that place that you were at

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maybe you were at your friend's house I

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got back from her house last night I got

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back from the concert late

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great you can use this all together

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where did you get home from I got home

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from I got back from that place the

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fifth sentence is one that I used a

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couple days ago actually I have a little

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secret I know a lot of you enjoy TV

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shows and movies but personally I'm not

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really a big fan of watching TV the only

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TV shows i watch our documentaries or

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something like that but the other day my

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husband and I decided to try to watch

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the TV show friends I know this is super

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popular and a lot of people enjoy using

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it for English but for me for my

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personal enjoyment I don't really enjoy

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watching that type of thing but we

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thought let's give it a try let's try to

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watch this TV show it's so popular right

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let's it's got to be great

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well after we watched about 6 or 7

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minutes

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we stopped the show and said I don't get

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why this is popular I don't get why

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people like this and if this is a

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personal opinion it might be

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controversial but in the end it wasn't

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my style of TV show so you can use the

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same expression don't get y plus

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something now so you might say Vanessa I

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don't get why you didn't like it this is

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a great show let me know in the comments

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what do you think about the TV show

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friends do you not get why it's popular

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or maybe you don't get why I don't like

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it but often we use this in the negative

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I don't get something this is to do with

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understanding something I don't

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understand why this is popular so you

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too can use this expression I don't get

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why something happens the sixth get

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sentence is we need to get going we need

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to get going this expression get going I

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use all the time and it's often that

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family members or people who you live

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with will use this with each other

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because it's possible that someone in

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your house is slower than the others or

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maybe they don't want to go to an event

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and you're feeling hurried or worried

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even about being late so you could say

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oh come on

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we need to get going this means we need

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to leave soon we need to leave now we

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need to get going for me now that I have

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a baby it takes a lot longer to organize

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stuff and get out of our house so I

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often say this oh we need to get going

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but there's so many things we need to do

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so I want to know for you can you use

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get going we need to get going

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the final get sentence is let's get

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together tomorrow get together

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I used this actually yesterday because

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one of my friends got a new puppy and I

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can't wait to see it so I invited myself

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to her house pretty much and I said

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let's get together tomorrow I need to

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see your puppy this is essential so when

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you use get together this is the same as

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I want to see you I want to visit you I

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want to go to your house and spend some

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time together but it's a little more

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casual and it's really common in daily

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conversation so the next time that you

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want to plan an event with someone make

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sure you use this let's get together at

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5 o'clock let's get together next month

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I'm really busy this month or I can't

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get together I'm sorry use this full

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expression get together so now it's your

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turn in the comments below

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answer one of my questions can you use

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get sleep get distracted get going get

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together all of these get expressions

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can you use them in the comments try to

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write sentences read them out loud and

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use them in your daily conversations

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