Getting up is the step from being in bed to starting your day outside it. You can already be awake before you get up.

The idea

Use get up for leaving bed, gets up with he or she, and got up for the past. In questions with do or does, keep get in its base form.

Examples

  • Mina gets up at half past six.
  • We do not get up early on Sundays.
  • What time do you get up on workdays?
  • Omar got up late yesterday.
  • I wake up at seven, but I get up at seven fifteen.
  • Please get up; breakfast is on the table.

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Watch out

Wake up means stop sleeping. It does not necessarily mean leave bed. This lesson focuses on the morning sense of get up, which can also mean rise from a seat.

Try it yourself

  1. Choose the correct option. Mina ___ up at half past six. (get / gets)

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    gets

    Gets agrees with Mina, a third-person singular subject.

  2. Choose the correct option. Yesterday Omar ___ up late. (got / getted)

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    got

    Got is the irregular past of get; do not add -ed.

  3. Choose the action of leaving bed; you are already awake. I ___ at seven fifteen. (get up / wake up)

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    get up

    Get up names leaving bed; the context says you are already awake.

Use it today

Write when you wake up and when you get up. Then describe one other person's routine and yesterday's different time.