{"id":824,"date":"2016-07-07T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:39:24","slug":"conversation-questions-get-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/home\/conversation-questions-get-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"conversation Questions for &#8220;get&#8221; = &#8220;understand&#8221;","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Practice is Necessary<\/h1>\n<p>the verb get is a complicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/get-little-verb-everything\/\">little verb that does everything<\/a>. One of the meanings of \u201cget\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/get-means-understand\/\">\u201cunderstand.\u201d<\/a> This is important to know, but if you want to use \u201cget,\u201d you need to practice. This is a list of questions that you can use for practice. All of them use \u201cget\u201d to mean \u201cunderstand.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>Conversation Questions<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you have problems with getting people\u2019s jokes?<\/li>\n<li>Do people get your jokes?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever gotten a joke that no one else has gotten?<\/li>\n<li>Do people get you or do you think that nobody gets you?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever told yourself that you will never get English rules? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Do you wish you had a good friend who really got you?<\/li>\n<li>Are you a person who really gets people?<\/li>\n<li>Do you get why the world is so crazy?<\/li>\n<li>When did you get that \u201cget\u201d is a complicated little verb?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Your Turn<\/h1>\n<p>Of course, these questions are not helpful if you do not practice. So leave a comment to answer one of these questions. Or you can answer more than one. 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