English Vocabulary

to avoid "get"

Fugendichter

User since 2008
Posts: 588

21 July 2008

what do you know about this subject? "get" is one of the most common words. English people are said to avoid it in formal writing.

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toumaï
User since 2007
Posts: 12
14 Aug. 2008

... another idea is to keep learning more and more vocabulary, read a lot....
That's what I am trying to do.
... another idea is to keep learning more and more vocabulary, read a lot.... That's what I am trying to do.
toumaï
User since 2007
Posts: 12
14 Aug. 2008

Hi Gwendo
Maybe you should buy....
"Practical English usage" by Michael Swan
Oxford University Press

It's a great book which explains a great deal of those tricky things of the English language.
Concerning "get", they say "it's sometimes avoided in a very formal style, but it is correct and natural in most kinds of speech and writing." ... and then there are 2 pages about its use.
Hi Gwendo Maybe you should buy.... "Practical English usage" by Michael Swan Oxford University Press It's a great book which explains a great deal of those tricky things of the English language. Concerning "get", they say "it's sometimes avoided in a very formal style, but it is correct and natural in most kinds of speech and writing." ... and then there are 2 pages about its use.
Oscar Galán
User since 2008
Posts: 2
17 Aug. 2008

... It's true ! actually I would like to use it more often, but, I'm not good enough to use phrasal verbs with this particule.
... It's true ! actually I would like to use it more often, but, I'm not good enough to use phrasal verbs with this particule.
Sunny19
User since 2008
Posts: 121
15 Aug. 2008

Thanks for your helpful tibs. Get still fun out of learning and reading English!
Thanks for your helpful tibs. Get still fun out of learning and reading English!

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