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Phrasal Verb: Get on

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Get on - Continue doing something
Example:
The teacher asked the pupils to GET ON with some work quietly as she had to leave the classroom.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Get on - Enter a bus, train, plane, etc.
Example:
We GOT ON the train at Plymouth and went up to London.
Notes:
- Inseparable
- International English
Get on - Make progress, deal with something with a reasonable degree of success
Example:
How are you GETTING ON with your Spanish lessons?
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Get on - Have a good relationship
Example:
We have always GOT ON well.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Get on - Become old, age
Example:
He's GETTING ON now and doesn't work so hard.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Get on - Be late or near an arranged time
Example:
I must get home now; it's GETTING ON.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
Get on - Wear, fit
Example:
I have put so much weight on that I couldn't GET my old suits ON.
Notes:
- Separable [optional]
- International English
Get on - Leave
Example:
I must be GETTING ON; I have other things to do this evening.
Notes:
- Intransitive
- International English
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Other Phrasal Verbs

We have 66 phrasal verbs with 'GET'

- Get about
- Get above
- Get across
- Get across to
- Get after
- Get ahead
- Get ahead of
- Get along
- Get along in
- Get along with
- Get around
- Get around to
- Get at
- Get away
- Get away from
- Get away with
- Get away!
- Get back
- Get back at
- Get back into
- Get back to
- Get back together
- Get behind
- Get behind with
- Get by
- Get by on
- Get by with
- Get down
- Get down on
- Get down to
- Get in
- Get in on
- Get in with
- Get into
- Get it
- Get it off
- Get it off with
- Get it on
- Get it on with
- Get it together
- Get it up
- Get off
- Get off it
- Get off on
- Get off with
- Get off!
- Get on
- Get on at
- Get on for
- Get on to
- Get on with
- Get onto
- Get out
- Get out of
- Get out!
- Get over
- Get over with
- Get round
- Get round (around) to
- Get round (or around)
- Get through
- Get through to
- Get to
- Get together
- Get up
- Get up to

 
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