@maocolombiarxn -- Well, this is a hard thing to explain. You don't have to change the verb "be" to "get." However, compare these two sentences: He was killed in an accident. / He got killed in an accident. Do you see or hear any difference? The verb "get" imparts a slightly different meaning. The verb "get" underscores the action a little more. Here's another example: The children were fed. / The children got fed. -- There's a small difference in these two sentences.
Please, teacher, don't get me wrong, I may can make mistakes with that. In the sentence "My car is fixed by mechanic" sounds like something that always happens and in the sentence "My car get fixed by mechanic" sounds like this time is a mechanic who fix the car.
Excellent lesson teacher Paul!! this is so useful because it's very difficult for me to understand how Americans use the verb "get" because there are a lot of "slang" and "idioms" that they're formed with the verb "get". So, Can we always replace the verb "be" with "get"?, of course, except when "be" is forming the future tense "be going to", right?
what is the difference between WON'T AND WANT for pronunciation, It's very difficult differentiate, thanks for your videos teacher and grettings from Venezuela
@samurai50062 won't rhymes with don't, producing /long-o/ sound.
The letter "A" in WANT, however, is NOT pronounced as /long-o/ sound; instead, it's pronounced as /short-o/ as in the word WATT.
Also, if you could pronounce well the letter "O" in the words MOP, POP, BOB, DOGGY, GOT, LOT, BOTTLE, NOT, HOT, which are all pronounced as /short-o/, then you can have a strong confidence to sound WANT differently to WON'T.
IPA symbol for /short-o/ is /ɑ/, n for /long-o/ is /oʊ/
Since sentence in English is really dependent to its tense, in what situation and time can we say "My car gets fixed by a mechanic" and could you please provide a sample conversation contrasting "gets fixed" and "got fixed"?
Also, which is correct: in class, when we are going to ask a question, we say
"I wanted to ask a question." or "I want to ask .."
Soem questions about get:
may I say:
I got seen, I got picked up, I got served, I got taught...
I got laughed at me, I got brought, I got paid......
Jetfly444 2 days ago in playlist learnamericanenglish 4
You write fast. O_O
nicolebmoviesFTW2 1 month ago
I agree with teacher. Get makes the sentence more appealing. Without get the sentence sounds so simple.
2011rhythmdivine 5 months ago
Oh thank you so much, could you please explain some rules of pronunciation?
moongirlandsweet 11 months ago
Hi teacher! I'd like to know if i can use Got instead of Gotten and which one is more popular?
andrewwwessel 1 year ago
Your videos are better and better
DAEXGA 1 year ago
your explanation is very clear... but what is the use of it?
I mean... what is the purpose?... why is it neccessary to change the verb to be to GET?
maocolombiarxn 1 year ago
@maocolombiarxn -- Well, this is a hard thing to explain. You don't have to change the verb "be" to "get." However, compare these two sentences: He was killed in an accident. / He got killed in an accident. Do you see or hear any difference? The verb "get" imparts a slightly different meaning. The verb "get" underscores the action a little more. Here's another example: The children were fed. / The children got fed. -- There's a small difference in these two sentences.
learnamericanenglish 1 year ago
Please, teacher, don't get me wrong, I may can make mistakes with that. In the sentence "My car is fixed by mechanic" sounds like something that always happens and in the sentence "My car get fixed by mechanic" sounds like this time is a mechanic who fix the car.
EgleFig 1 year ago
Excellent lesson teacher Paul!! this is so useful because it's very difficult for me to understand how Americans use the verb "get" because there are a lot of "slang" and "idioms" that they're formed with the verb "get". So, Can we always replace the verb "be" with "get"?, of course, except when "be" is forming the future tense "be going to", right?
Thank you so much!!
boquita38 1 year ago
what is the difference between WON'T AND WANT for pronunciation, It's very difficult differentiate, thanks for your videos teacher and grettings from Venezuela
samurai50062 1 year ago
@samurai50062 won't rhymes with don't, producing /long-o/ sound.
The letter "A" in WANT, however, is NOT pronounced as /long-o/ sound; instead, it's pronounced as /short-o/ as in the word WATT.
Also, if you could pronounce well the letter "O" in the words MOP, POP, BOB, DOGGY, GOT, LOT, BOTTLE, NOT, HOT, which are all pronounced as /short-o/, then you can have a strong confidence to sound WANT differently to WON'T.
IPA symbol for /short-o/ is /ɑ/, n for /long-o/ is /oʊ/
I hOpe, you gOt it.
rivosuoth 1 year ago
@rivosuoth I get it, I need practice my listening , thank you very much
samurai50062 1 year ago
Great!
But I got some questions.
Since sentence in English is really dependent to its tense, in what situation and time can we say "My car gets fixed by a mechanic" and could you please provide a sample conversation contrasting "gets fixed" and "got fixed"?
Also, which is correct: in class, when we are going to ask a question, we say
"I wanted to ask a question." or "I want to ask .."
"I have a question!" or "I had .."
"I got a question" or "I get .."
Thanks in advance.
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