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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

both mean almost the same with the context?

I tried to get my message across the country.
Vs.
I tried to get my message across.

(The context is that the speaker is saying this sentence in a campaign for presidential race.)
  

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In the second sentence, "get across" is a set expression (phrasal verb) meaning to communicate successfully, or successfully make people hear and understand what you are saying. The phrasal verb "get across" does not take a separate object for "across", so "get" and "across" in "get my message across the country" have to be interpreted differently, more as separate words than as a set idiomatic combination. The meaning is something like "broadcast/spread my message across the country".

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  • In the second sentence, "get across" is a set expression (phrasal verb) meaning to communicate successfully, or successfully make people hear and understand what you are saying.
  • The phrasal verb "get across" does not take a separate object for "across", so "get" and "across" in "get my message across the country" have to be interpreted differently, more as separate words than as a set idiomatic combination.
  • The meaning is something like "broadcast/spread my message across the country".
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In the second sentence, "get across" is a set expression (phrasal verb) meaning to communicate successfully, or successfully make people hear and understand what you are saying.

The phrasal verb "get across" does not take a separate object for "across", so "get" and "across" in "get my message across the country" have to be interpreted differently, more as separate words than as a set idi
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