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CBE 2.10 | Swimming with the pigs: Pig Beach | Language focus: how to use ‘get’

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The Pigs Get on With Native Behemians and Visitors to the Bahamas

Paddle means to move through water, but it's not quite the same as swimming. So for example, when children are learning to swim, they paddle. Get on with someone means to have a good, friendly relationship with them. For example, I could say I don't get on with my colleagues. They're very different to me. And there's one more use of get in the sentence. Yes, here we have another phrasal verb. The pigs get on with both native behemians and visitors to the island. They get on.

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