phrasal verb / causative · neutral
get something done
/ɡet ˈsʌmθɪŋ dʌn/get some·THING DONE
to arrange for someone else to do something; to cause something to be done by another person.
Examples
“I got my phone fixed at the shop yesterday.”
“She needs to get the house painted before winter.”
“Can you get the report finished by Friday?”
Band 8 sentence
“I got my apartment rewired last month because the old sockets were unsafe, and the electrician finished everything within a day.”
Collocations
- get the car fixed
- get the report proofread
- get someone arrested
Word family
Common mistakes
I get my car is fixed yesterday.→I got my car fixed yesterday.
I got my phone to repair.→I got someone to repair my phone. / I got my phone repaired.
Say it for a higher band
5make someone do→6have something done→7+get something done
Synonyms
have sth done
Easily confused
have something done
“I had my laptop repaired last week.”
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