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Have I used those phrasal verbs correctly? #4 Please answer "yes" or "no" (if it's the latter, give the explanation). I've learnt those phrasal verbs from the textbook but I'm not quite sure if I understand them right so I've made up some sentences. I'll give the meaning of them in the brackets just as in my studying textbook. Point out any other mistakes. "Get": I felt so relieved when I got away from Mark. He's so talkative! (leave person/place, especially if it's difficult). Ann finally got down to study linguistics (finally start doing smth). Her family scarcely gets by even for clothes (have enough money just for the things you need). The governement is believed to get round/around the financial crisis (find a way to deal with the problem or avoid it) I can't get across him/get through to him.Doesn't he understand that his future depends on the exam? (make smn understand smth). Get out of the car, quickly! (leave a car). Have you heard about Ann? She managed to get into doctor last month (start a career/profession).
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5. INCORRECT -- I can't get across him/get through to him.Doesn't he understand that his future depends on the exam? (make smn understand smth). **** So there are two patterns usually for indirect objects used with verbs. For instance, "I gave him the book." or "I gave the book to him." However, some verbs cannot take the first pattern. This is one of those verbs. So you have to say one of these: a. I can't get through to him. b. I can't get it through to him. (if there is a direct object) c. I can't get my idea through to him. d. I can't get it across to him. (with the pronoun "it") e. I can't get this simple plan to save money across to him. (with a direct object) f. I'm not good at getting my ideas across. g. My plan didn't really get across. 6. CORRECT -- Get out of the car, quickly! (leave a car). 7. INCORRECT -- Have you heard about Ann? She managed to get into doctor last month (start a career/profession). *** As Jessica said, in this particular example, you would have to use "managed to become a doctor." If you want to use "to manage to get into something", then you need to use the field name, not the profession name. For instance, "She managed to get into NURSING.", not "She managed to get into NURSE." The same holds with doctors. So "She managed to get into the medical field.", etc.
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* I've learned these phrasal verbs from a textbook but I'm not quite sure if I understand them correctly so I've made up some sentences. * I'll give the meaning of them in brackets just as they appear in my textbook. 1. CORRECT -- I felt so relieved when I got away from Mark. He's so talkative! (leave person/place, especially if it's difficult). 2. PARTIALLY CORRECT -- Ann finally got down to studyING linguistics (finally start doing smth). *** At least in American English, you need the ING form after "to finally get down to something." The reason is because this verb takes a noun as an object after the preposition "to". Therefore, you need to use the gerund form of the verb, not its infinitive form. 3. CORRECT -- Her family scarcely gets by, even for clothes (have enough money just for the things you need). *** Although, I would reword this as "Her family scarcely gets by, even when it comes to clothes." 4. SOUNDS ODD -- The governement is believed to get round/around the financial crisis (find a way to deal with the problem or avoid it) --- Reword it as, "It is believed that the government is able to get round/around the financial crisis." or as "It is believed that the government will be able to get round/around the financial crisis.".
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Yes these are really good examples. The only thing that stands out to me is: Not to say 'I can't get across him' as a sentence on it's own. You'd say 'I can't get it across to him' or 'I can't get across to him (what it is you can't get across).' And 'she managed to get into doctor last month' sounds like she got a doctor's appointment. It would make ore sense to say 'she managed to become a doctor last month'. I hope this helps.
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you must say: and finaly not ANN finaly, the government believed, i can't get thanks to him not I CAN'T GET ACCROS HIM or GET THROUGH TO HIM
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