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Get in touch meaning: contact someone

To contact someone: get in touch with. Here with belongs, but add the same with to contact and you get one of the most common mistakes in business emails.

Get in touch means to contact someone: write, call, reach out. It works in a business email and in a chat with friends: Get in touch if you need anything. The person or company follows with: get in touch with the school.

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get in touch with + person/company; get in touch (by email/phone); be in touch

  • I got in touch with my old teacher after twenty years, and she remembered me.
  • Get in touch with the hotel before you arrive to ask about parking.
  • Thanks for your application. We'll be in touch next week.

What changed

First versionIf you have any questions, please contact with our manager.

RevisionIf you have any questions, please contact our manager.

Get in touch takes with, so it's tempting to add with to contact as well. But after the verb contact, the person comes straight after, with no preposition: contact our manager. Contact with only appears with the noun: close contact with animals. The correction removes the extra with.

Cambridge Dictionary

Get in touch means to contact someone. Keep in touch means to stay in contact and not disappear: Let's keep in touch after the course. Lose touch means to stop being in contact: We lost touch after school.

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Your order has been delayed, so please ___ our support team for a new delivery date.

(get in touch with / contact with)

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get in touch with — You need to contact the support team, and get in touch needs with. Contact with used as a verb is a mistake: it's either contact our support team or get in touch with.

Write a short message to a colleague or friend. Ask them to contact someone and explain why.

Could you get in touch with the landlord and ask him to fix the heating before Friday?

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