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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

get

The phone is ringing, would you get it please?

Is this sentence grammatically and semantically correct?

I mean, by the sentence, that "The phone is ringing, would you attend the call please?"
  

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Yes, that is correct. You are asking the person to answer the phone.

  • Yes, that is correct.
  • You are asking the person to answer the phone.
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Yes, that is correct. You are asking the person to answer the phone.
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The same with "someone's at the door.....will you get it please"?
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All the students got me in my new clothes when I entered the classroom.

We usually get him for his ugly faces.

Are these sentences correct?

[I meant, by the first sentence, that, "All the students looked at me and laughed at me when I entered the classroom with my new dress".

I meant, by the second sentence, that, "We usually laugh a
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No, I don't agree with the use of 'got' for 'laugh at'. Where did you get this meaning from?
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Thank you Nona the Brit.

I got it from Cambridge Dictionary.

get (LOOK AT) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=32704&ph=on
verb [T not continuous] US gotten INFORMAL
to look at or notice someone, and usually laugh at them:
Get h
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Ah right, yes. OK it is used sometimes in this meaning (over here as well as in the US) but not in the way you are trying. It's a nasty comment that people say and it always takes the form 'Get him' or 'Get her' or 'Get you' in a sarcastic sort of voice. You don't just use 'get' in a sentence to mean 'laugh at'. It's always dialogue/speech. It's a way of sneering at someone.
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Thank you Nona-the-Brit.

Then, do you agree that my sentences are grammatically and semantically correct? Or Is it need corrections?
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No, they are not correct. As I said, get can only be used in this way as a sarcastic comment in speech or reported speech.

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