Grammar question: How to use the verbs get/make?

[Puneet]

dear sir,

i am confused to use (as in the Grammar) Get/make in my English so please let me know use alongwith example then i can understand quikly.

thanks,
puneet

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[Cerberus™]

Both words have many different ways of using them, the answer would take up ten pages in a dictionary. That is called idiom: there is no good rule for these words.

The most general meanings are:

- When you make something: you create it, you cause it to exist. You can make a house from stones or bricks. God made the world (if that's what you believe).

- When you get something: you go to some place, you take this thing, and you go back. Or someone else comes and he gives it to you. Then you have the thing at the place where you were at first. You can get bread at the store. You can get a present from your friend.

But there are many, many uses of these words that have nothing at all to do with their general meanings.

[Gray]