Grammar : To Get

To Get

? get,got,getting

? Examples

TO GET

'To get' can be used in a number of patterns and has a number of meanings.

TO GET + direct object= obtain, receive, buy.

Examples

I got my passport last week.

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TO GET + place expression= reach, arrive at a place.

Examples

How are you getting home tonight?

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TO GET + adjective= become, show a change of state.

Examples

I am getting old.

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TO GET + preposition/adverbis used in many phrasal verbs.

Examples

This rain is really getting me down.

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TO GEThas a number of other meanings:

Examples

? Do you get it?(= understand)

? He's getting dinner tonight.(= prepare a meal)

? I'll get the bill.(= pay)

? That really gets me!(= irritate, annoy)

Other expressions with GET:

Examples

? To get rid of something means to throw it away.
Example:I'm going to get rid of all these old newspapers.

? To get out of bed on the wrong side means to be in a bad mood.
Example:He got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning and he's been horrible all day.

? To get your own back means to have your revenge or punish someone.
Example:She's getting her own back for all those rude things you said at the party last night.

TO GET

TO GET + direct object= to obtain, to receive, to buy:

To obtain

Examples

? Shegother driving license last week.

? Theygotpermission to live in Switzerland.

Toreceive

Examples

? Igota letter from my friend in Nigeria.

? Hegets$1,000 a year from his father.

Tobuy

Examples

? Shegota new coat from Zappaloni in Rome.

? Wegota new television for the sitting room.

TO GET + place expression= reach, arrive at a place:

Examples

? Wegotto London around 6 p.m.

? What time will wegetthere?

? When did yougetback from New York?

TO GET + adjective= to become, show a change of state:

Examples

? It'sgettinghotter.

? By the time they reached the house they weregettinghungry.

? I'mgettingtired of all this nonsense.

? My mother'sgettingold and needs looking after.

? Itgetsdark very early in the winter.

? Don't touch the stove until isgetscool.

TO GET + preposition / adverbis used in many phrasal verbs. Here are some of the most common ones:

Examples

Phrasal Verb	Meaning
get at	try to express
get away with	escape punishment for a crime or bad action
get by	manage (financially)
get down	descend; depress
get off	leave a form of transport (train, bus, bicycle, plane)
get on	enter/sit on a form of transport (train, bus, bicycle, plane); have a relationship with someone; manage
get out of	avoid doing something, especially a duty
get over	recover (from an illness, a surprise)
get through	use or finish the supply of something
get up	leave your bed
get up to	do - usually something bad

Examples

? Hegot onhis bicycle and rode down the street.

? Hegets upat 6.00 a.m. every morning.

? Shegot out ofthe washing-up every day, even when it was her turn.

? Wegot offthe train just before the bomb exploded.

? We'vegot throughall the sugar - can you buy some more?

? The children are very quiet - I wonder what they'regetting up to.

reff : http://gefarispokenenglishcourse.blogspot.com/2011/01/grammar-to-get.html

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Ranger Tags!

Hey friends!

I have more tags to share using Ranger art mediums, Tim Holtz products and of course-Prima! I was thrilled when Patti from Ranger emailed and asked me to create some projects for the Ranger booth for Winter CHA...swoon! So I thought I would share some of the tags here with you....

Not all of the projects made the cut, but they are still some of my favorites just the same...And i figured i had better blog about them before i forget how i made them :)

This first tag-I added a few layers of images for the background. I stamped the flourish a couple times using a Prima stamps and espresso paint. Then I brushed some Studio gesso over the background and stamped a bunch of little flowers using Aqua, Mountain Rose and Red Pepper acrylics. I just kept stamping the little flowers until I was happy! I applied gold acrylic paint that I washed out with some water over the entire background. Then I colored some seam binding withDistressStains-Brokenchina and Crushed Olive. I added a Ranger metal frame with tissue tape inside and embellished with Gold Prima flowers. The Prima resin bird was colored with alcohol inks and coated with Rock Candy Distress crackle...

For this tag-I applied a few colors of acrylic paint-again added water to my brush and basically watercolored with Lettuce, Mountain Rose and Terra Cotta. Then I placed the Prima mask over the tag and sprayed with Espresso colorwash and added a sprtiz of water to it with the mask still on the tag so the color wasn't so dark. I cut out little clouds from book paper and colored them withAntiqueLinen Distress Stain. I embellished with

Prima lace at the bottom and colored seam binding with crushed olive Distress Stain. Then added one of Tim's keys to the bow..This tag didnt make the cut, but I just love it!

For this tag-I dry brushed a variety of Adirondack acrylics to the tag-Lettuce, Mountain Rose and Red Pepper. Then I added Silver to the center-again-drybrushingthe paint onto the tag. I added a Prima Antique mirror with Aire Flowers and colored the Prima bird with Lettuce Colorwash. The Tim Holtz bookplate is painted with Mountain Rose. Then I applied Red Pepper over it and wiped of the excess, leaving the color in the crevices....one of Tim's tickets was added to the inside of the bookplate-it was colored with crushed olive Distress Stain. Then to finish it off-I added a knob to the top of the tag.

The background of this tag has many layers: First I colored it with a variety ofcolor-washesand then added gesso over it. I used a Prima stamp with AgedMahoganyin areas, for a textured look on the background. I embellished with a Prima felt Devine and lace. Then I painted white eline flowers with Mountain Rose and Terra Cotta paints. I also painted the metal flower centers by Tim and added Prima crystals to create one of a kind flowers.

The tags are a mix of Ranger manila and standard shipping tags. The Ranger tags are larger and give you more surface to work with. They also have Kraft and Black-very cool!

Thanks for stopping by and i hope this post inspired you to create some fabulous tags of your own! Have a great day everyone!

xoxo Cari

reff : http://meandmymaryjanes.blogspot.com/2012/05/hey-friends-i-have-more-tags-to-share.html

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Maggie May

We had decided back in February (pre-pregnancy) that we were going to be the proud parents of a miniature golden-doodle. A week after we found out we were pregnant we drove down to pick Maggie up. Here are some photos of our sweet girl!

reff : http://twicetheadventure.blogspot.com/2014/08/maggie-may.html

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Heroes And Heroines By (Stephen Leacock)

         "What Are you reading?" I asked the other day of a blue-eyed boy of ten curled up among the sofa cushions.
             he held out the book for me to see.
         "Dauntless Ned among the Cannibals," he answered.
            "Is it Exciting?" I inquired.
           "Not Very," said the child in a matter-of-fact tone.
       "But it's not bad. "
     I took the book from him and read aloud at the opened page.
        "In a compact mass the gigantic savages rushed upon our hero, shrieking with rage and ground fearlessly, his back to a banana tree. with a sweep of his cutlass he severed the head of the leading savage from this body , While with a back stroke of his dirk he stabbed another to the heart. But resistance against such, Ned was borne to the ground. His arms were then pinioned with stout ropes made of the fibers of the boo-booda tree. with shrieks of exultation the savages dragged our hero to an opening in the woods where a huge fire was burning, over which was suspended an enormous cauldron of bubbling oil. "Boil him, boil him!" yelled the savages, now wrought to the point of frenzy!
                      "that seems fairly exciting, isn't it?" I said
           "oh he won't get boiled," said the little boy. "He is the hero."
       So I knew that the child has already taken his first step in disillusionment of fiction.
       Of Course he was quite right as to Ned. This Wonder full youth, the hero with whom we all begin an acquaintance with books, passes unhurt through a thousand perils. Cannibals, Apache Indians, Was, Battles, Shipwrecks, leave him quite unscathed. At the most Ned gets a flesh wound which is healed, in exactly one paragraph, by that wonderful drug called a 'Simple'.
      But the most amazing thing about this particular hero, the boy Ned, is the way in which he turns up in all great battles and leading events of the world.
       It was Ned, for example , who at the critical moment at Gettysburg turned in his saddle to General Meade and said quietly, "General, the day is ours." If it is," Answered Meade, as he folded his field glass,"You alone, Ned, Have saved it."
        In the same way Ned was present at the crossing of the deal ware with Washington. thus:
  "what do you see, Ned?" said Washington as they peered from the leading boat into driving snow.
     "Ice," said Ned, "My Boy," Said The Great American General, And a tear froze upon his face as he spoke, "You have saved us all."
          "here is Ned at Runnymede when King John with pen in hand was about to sign the Magna Carta.
           "For a moment the king paused irresolute, the uplifted quill in his hand, While his crafty furtive eyes  indicated That he might yet break his plighted faith with assembled barons.
          Ned laid his mailed hand upon the parchment.
"Sign it," he said sternly, "or take the consequences."
              The King Signed.
"Ned," Said the baron de Bohen, As he removed his iron vizor from his bronzed face,"thou hast this day save all England."
            In the stories of our boyhood in which Ned figured, There was no such thing as a heroine, or practically none. At best she was broght in as an afterthought. It was announced on page three hundred and one that at the close of Ned's desperate adventures in the West indies he married the beautiful daughter of Don Diego, the Spanish governor of Portobello; Or else, at the end of the great war with Napoleon, that he married a beautiful and accomplished French girl. Whose parents had perished in the Revolution.
              Ned generally married away from home. In fact his marriages were intended to cement the nations, torn asunder by Ned's military career. But sometimes he returned to his native town, all sun-burned, scarred and bronzed from battle (the Bronzing effect of being in battle is always Noted( : he had changed from a boy to a man, that is, from a boy of fifteen to a man of sixteen. In such a case Ned marries in his 76 own home town.. It is done after this fashion.
                      "But who is this who advances smiling to greet him as he crosses the familiar threshold of the dear old house? Can this tall, Beautiful girl be Gwendoline, the child-play-mate of his boy-hood?"
                   Well, can it? I ask it of every experienced reader--can it or can it no 

The Author (Stephen Leacock)

                                

reff : http://storylf.blogspot.com/2014/11/heroes-and-heroines-by-stephen-leacock.html

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