Get Started (2024)

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What it means to get started? ›

1. : to begin doing or working on something. You (had) better get started if you want to finish on time. 2.

Both are correct and, in my experience, interchangeable. "Let's start" is slightly more imperative.

synonyms: bestir oneself, get cracking, get going, get moving, get rolling, get weaving. begin, commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.

Let's get started on cleaning the house. We can't get started until we secure some funding. I know the amount of work seems daunting, but it will be fine once we get started. This money will enable us to get started on a new bicycle trail linking the two towns.

“Let's start” is a perfectly fine sentence but for whatever reason people just don't tend to say it. Maybe it's too stiff. “Start” sounds better in more casual formations like the one you have used: “let's get started” or “let's make a start”. If you want to keep it brief, best to use “let's begin”.

“I started” is used to talk about actions that began in the past. e.g I started cooking 2 hours ago. “I get started”, “To get started” (This doesn't have anything to do with the past), this means to begin doing something or working on something e.g “I really need to 'get started' if i want to finish on time.

Some common synonyms of start are begin, commence, inaugurate, initiate, and usher in. While all these words mean "to take the first step in a course, process, or operation," start, opposed to stop, applies especially to first actions, steps, or stages.

Both are perfectly acceptable. Getting started implies a description of the process, Get started is a suggestion to the reader to do so, obviously to be followed by instructions. They technically mean different things, but either one could be used as a title.

Verb They started clearing land for the new housing development. He started studying music at the age of five. As soon as you're ready to play, we'll start.

If you never start, success will never come your way! Taking even small steps toward achieving your goal can have a big impact on your life and motivate you to keep pushing forward. It's also important to remember that getting started doesn't guarantee success but not attempting at all guarantees failure!

What does "I started" mean? ›

If you start to do something, you do something that you were not doing before and you continue doing it. John then unlocked the front door and I started to follow him up the stairs. It was 1956 when Susanna started the work on the garden. Synonyms: set about, begin, proceed, embark upon More Synonyms of start.

begin, commence, start, initiate, inaugurate, usher in mean to take the first step in a course, process, or operation.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be a startspoken used to say that something you have achieved may not be impressive, but it will help with a bigger achievement One exercise class a week isn't enough, but it's a start.