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1. Look at the difference:
In the classroom there is a book on the table. I tell you:
Pick the book up. (It’s on the table)
Pick up = Raise, lift something from the table, the floor, etc.* (coger/levantar)
(‘Lift’ is similar, but it implies more effort: You pick up a pencil, but you lift a rock)
Catch the book! (I throw it at you!)
Catch = Something in the air, a criminal, a virus or cold (coger/atrapar)
Take the book (I give it to you so you can take it home)
Take = Pick something up and go with it (coger/llevar)
Get the book (I don’t give you the book- You have to buy it)
Get = Obtain, receive, buy, (coger/conseguir). For other uses of ‘Get’, click here.
More Details:
- *PICK or PICK UP?
Meet someone at the station or airport to take them in your car (recoger) = pick up
Take fruit from the tree (recoger) = pick
- FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
Get = a taxi, bus, train, boat, plane
Catch = a taxi, bus, train
Take** = a taxi, bus, train, boat, plane TO + DESTINATION.
- **TAKE
Take is also ‘llevar’
How long does it take by train to London?
I have to take the dog for a walk.
Now put the theory into practice!
In some questions there is more than one correct answer.
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