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Fatimah0786 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Get through to Vs put someone through to

What is the difference between,"It took me 30 minutes to get through to customer service" and "Good morning. Can you put me through to Susan Black, please?"
  

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I don't understand your question. The two sentences are completely different.

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I don't understand your question. The two sentences are completely different.
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Are the phrases antonyms of each other? I took an online test and these sentences were a part of the test. Could you please explain me the meaning of these phrases?
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Get through to describes what you did (although others may have been involved). It describes the process of reaching the person by phone.
Put through to describes what someone else did for you. It describes someone else connecting or forwarding the call to the person you wanted to speak to.
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Is it o.k to say, "He didn't make any efforts to get through to me".
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fatimah0786Are the phrases antonyms of each other?
No. Not antonyms. You might say that when you're talking about communications "through" means "connected (with)" or "in communication (with)". You might say that "put through" is the causative of "get through".

get through ~ become connected
put through ~ cause to become c
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fatimah0786Is it o.k to say, "He didn't make any efforts to get through to me".
Yes. (I'd say "effort".)

CJ
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