Phrasal verb: Get up

  1. get up
    (Intransitive)
    Meaning: get out of bed
    Example: I got up at 6am today for no reason!

    When I was a child I used to sleep walk.  I would get up in the middle of the night and walk around the house until my parents heard me and told me to go back to bed.  In the morning I would have no recollection of anything. Once I even sleep walked in a hotel!  Have you ever sleep walked?

  2. Meaning: stand (another phrasal verb: stand up)
    Example: Everyone got up when the judge entered the courtroom.

    Bob Marley says it well: “Get up!  Stand up!”

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