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Fall down the rabbit hole and learn five English phrases that were created or popularized by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This lesson will not only increase your vocabulary, but your pop culture knowledge, and Western mental health language knowledge as well. Some of the language in the lesson includes: mad as a Hatter, curiouser and curiouser, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and more! Don’t forget to pick up your FREE AUDIO BOOK from Audible after you have finished the lesson at engvid.com/to/audiblealex . If you decide to get a copy of Alice in Wonderland, I recommend getting the version narrated by Shelby Lewis! It has some of the clearest and easiest-to-understand pronunciation you will find in an English audio book. Get it today, or another book of your choice, and join the Audible community. We’re all mad here. You can also buy the book on Amazon here: engvid.com/to/book_alice
Take the quiz: engvid.com/learn-english-with-alice-in-wonderland
Fall down the rabbit hole and learn five English phrases that were created or popularized by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This lesson will not only increase your vocabulary, but your pop culture knowledge, and Western mental health language knowledge as well. Some of the language in the lesson includes: mad as a Hatter, curiouser and curiouser, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and more! Don’t forget to pick up your FREE AUDIO BOOK from Audible after you have finished the lesson at engvid.com/to/audiblealex . If you decide to get a copy of Alice in Wonderland, I recommend getting the version narrated by Shelby Lewis! It has some of the clearest and easiest-to-understand pronunciation you will find in an English audio book. Get it today, or another book of your choice, and join the Audible community. We’re all mad here. You can also buy the book on Amazon here: engvid.com/to/book_alice
Take the quiz: engvid.com/learn-english-with-alice-in-wonderland

![Learn 20 passive GET Expressions in English!
Get is one of the hardest verbs to master in English. In this simple lesson, Ill teach you 20 common get expressions that you can start using NOW. The expressions taught in this lesson include: get blamed, get caught, get dressed, get engaged, get tired, get hit, get invited, get lost, get paid, get involved, and many more! If you want to improve your vocabulary and use common English expressions when youre speaking, this is the lesson for you. Come on. Lets get this done!
Now, watch my video on 4 types of HOW questions in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ro9075G2Q&list=PLrPhmmx5j5b-AjltXcrLI4iiqF7lsj_P8&index=5
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TRANSCRIPT
Buttoned or open? Buttoned, opened. Open, okay. Hey, I was just getting dressed. Hey, everyone. Im Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on 20 Passive Get Expressions. So, a lot of you guys have been asking me for more lessons on the verb get because it is everywhere in English, so today Im going to look at 20 expressions that you can use in the passive sense with get. So, basically to do a passive sentence with get, you have: get plus a past participle verb. In these sentences, get usually replaces the verbs to be or become. Okay? So if youre speaking in the past with was or were, you would just replace was or were with got. If youre replacing the verb I am, okay? You can just say: I get in the passive sense. I think it will make a lot more sense once you see some examples, because if you feel confused right now, after the examples you will say: Thats better. Okay. Its not so bad. And its really not so bad, so lets look at the examples. Well practice pronunciation in this lesson, too.
So, first: Get asked. If someone asks you to do something, you get asked to do something. For example: I got asked to work overtime. Someone asked me, probably my boss, definitely my boss asked me to work overtime, so I got asked to work overtime. Now, remember, here get is replacing a form of the verb to be or become. So, you could say: I was asked in a standard past simple passive sentence. I was asked to work overtime. But in speaking we often substitute was or were, or other forms of the verb to be in passive sentences with get. All right, lets look at some more examples.
Get blamed. So, if you are blamed for something, this means someone accuses you of wrongdoing, of doing something wrong. So, for example: She always gets blamed for everything. So, if you know, maybe your sister, someone in your family, a co-worker of yours is always accused of doing the wrong thing or is always accused of being the person who does the bad thing: She always gets blamed for everything. I always got blamed for everything when I was a kid. Not really. Usually it was my youngest sister, but just an example. All right?
So, next: Get caught. If you get caught doing something, this means someone saw you in the act of doing something, and its something you didnt want other people to see. So, for example: Dont do it. Youre going to get caught. Youll often see this in, you know, crime dramas or movies where theres a bad guy, and the police catch the bad guy or, you know, a video camera catches the crime in action, so the criminal gets caught. So, if you are caught, you get caught, you are seen in the act of doing something that you dont want other people to see. Okay? So: Dont get caught.
Get done. So, to be completed. Right? So, for example: The project got done on time. We finished the project. The project got done by us-passive sense-on time. All right? The project was done, The project got done.
Next: Get dressed. You probably know this. I did a video on, you know, getting dressed and... What was it? Get dressed and Get dressed up, yeah. Undressed and dressed up. So: I was getting dressed when you called. I wiped that a little bit, sorry. But you see it. Right? Unless youre looking on your phone, in which case, just look at a notebook or something, or keep watching on your phone because the rest of this stuff is visible. So: Get dressed. I was getting dressed, I was putting my clothes on when you called me. Okay?
Next: Get elected. So, in a political election: She got elected President. She was elected by the people to become President. -Who got elected? -She got elected./He got elected. Just so we dont date this video Im not going to mention the most, you know, recent political situations happening in the world because we will all be angry, and were not going to do that.
So: Get engaged. So, before you get married, usually one of the people asks the other person to become their husband and/or become their wife, become their life partner, and they say... You can kind of see me. Will you marry me? […] Learn 20 passive GET Expressions in English!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yzLbKEomlCI/mqdefault.jpg)

