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Sun 14 Mar, 2004 05:50 am
So, on the train I have nothing else to do but think about stuff like this:
Is there another word in English that has more prepositional partners than the word -getting? There may be more than these and it's kind of fun to read this list out loud.
Getting
Getting up
Getting down
Getting over
Getting around
Getting into
Getting some
Getting closer
Getting none
Getting about
Getting across
Getting off
Getting on
Getting for
Getting from
Getting in
Getting out
Getting cold
Getting hot
Getting warmer
Getting done
Getting finished
Getting beyond
Getting within
Getting through
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added
Getting ahead
Getting lost
getting away
getting there
getting anywhere
getting nowhere
Getting any?
Getting by.
Getting started.
Getting ahead
Getting lost
getting away...
You want to really annoy someone (a spouse, for example)... pick up a rhyming dictionary and start reading aloud.
I'll remember that.
Thanks for the new three.
What's a rhyming Dictionary for? Isn't it poetic cheating?
Nah... it's a tool. Same way as an eraser isn't cheating, it's a tool.
Getting any?
Getting Amy
Getting the best of me
Getting to me
Getting out of my head
Get a job Ba Dum Sha na na na Sha na na na na na
What's an eraser?
Getting any is okay.
the others have too many words to qualify.
getting there
getting anywhere
not prepositions, though
Hey, and
getting nowhere !
I'm adding them on to post number one.
Joe
Because "get" is used in a meaning related to "become" it can be used with an almost infinite number of adjectives.
As to your question "Is there another word in English that has more prepositional partners than the word -getting?" my guess is no, there are probably not any words that can craete phrasal verbs with more prepositions than "get" because I bet "get" can use them all.
But I also bet that this is not uncommon and that a few hundred words will share this distinction.
If you'd phrased the question about phrasal verb contruction and not about prepositions you'd probably make a bettr case for get's "specialness".
But hey, this may well be too pedentic a response, I plan to get lost.
Getting by.
Getting started.
Are you getting it?
Yea, seal.... Thanks.
Craven: Well, this is a half-thought out question, more of a musing, a dallience of the mind. I also tried -putting- but quickly ran out of ideas.
You ran out? In the run-up to a rundown on run, don't forget to run away, running off or running away with a Significant Other, run over the dog on the way, run into a friend, run down a cat, have a run-in with the law, run the officer through with a sword, and ending up by running for president.....
hmmmmm. so on the train this am i shall think on running....
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