Get XX miles
If your car gets 30 miles to the gallon and you have a 10-gallon tank, you can drive about 300 miles.
In the sentence above, what does underlined "gets" mean? obtained? went? or what else?
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"gets" is present tense while "obtained" is past tense, but, yes, it more or less means "obtain s ", even though the sentence doesn't quite seem exactly right (to me) if "obtains" is directly substituted. com/definition/us/get : Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain
- "gets" is present tense while "obtained" is past tense, but, yes, it more or less means "obtain s ", even though the sentence doesn't quite seem exactly right (to me) if "obtains" is directly substituted.
- com/definition/us/get : Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain
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"gets" is present tense while "obtained" is past tense, but, yes, it more or less means "obtains", even though the sentence doesn't quite seem exactly right (to me) if "obtains" is directly substituted.
See sense 2 at https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/get :
Succ
0The car gets you 30 miles (further) to your destination if it has one gallon of gas in its tank.
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