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 #2 (permalink) Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:21 pm To get + adjective/a verb+ed |
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Hi Sim,
don't take it as something for sure I am pretty poor with English but it is for me slight diffrence.
I will say like I am dressing up or I am dressing down.
or I am dressing a salad with something...
I am getting dressed is something like I become dressed
or ... maybe not? Teacher help!
- I'm dressing
- I'm getting dressed.
Here is as well something new for me because I remeber
to read that talking about "angry at a person" is a mistake
but I use it almost everyday and hear it as well.
Is it not the same that before with "become as a process" or "being angry as a fact right now" ??
- I get angry with her.
- I am angry with her
I don't know about
get + adjective/a verb + ed
nice to read about any explanation
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Apr 17, 2006 13:24 pm To get + adjective/a verb+ed |
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| Sim wrote: |
- I'm dressing
- I'm getting dressed. |
Those two sentences mean basically the same thing. They mean one is putting on one's clothes -- becoming dressed.
| Sim wrote: |
- I get angry with her.
- I am angry with her. |
"I get angry with her," means, "I become angry with her." It's in the simple present tense, so it doesn't have to mean you're angry now, but that you regularly become angry with the person.
"I am angry with her," means that you are angry with her right now.
When you interpret the word get in this type of construction, think of it as become. |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Apr 17, 2006 13:25 pm To get + adjective/a verb+ed |
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| Jan wrote: |
Here is as well something new for me because I remeber
to read that talking about "angry at a person" is a mistake
but I use it almost everyday and hear it as well. |
"Angry at a person" is absolutely the correct way to say it. What did they tell you was correct? |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Apr 17, 2006 14:16 pm To get + adjective/a verb+ed |
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"Angry at a person" is absolutely the correct way to say it. What did they tell you was correct?[/quote]
Hi,
I like my dictionary.(Collins) It is pretty cheap (positive way) but sometimes I had something to think about and so and so all use angry at a person , or angry with a person I mean all native
and they also tell that this is correct way?
thanks
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