Doubts in the English language, read here, very interesting?

It's something that gets better with practice and exposure. Like the previous post said, a lot of it has to do with context, intonation and the phrase in question. One way you can improve your understanding of ambiguous words like "get" is to read up on English expressions and idioms. A lot of "get" phrases have a single, set meaning depending on what phrase it's used in. For example: "to get hitched" = "to get married", "to get knocked-up" = "to get pregnant", "to be getting on in years" = "to be getting old, to gradually become older", etc. Here's a short list to help you get started: a href="http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularyreference/a/get_expressions.htm" rel="nofollow"http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularyrefere…/a