For having finally gotten it off your chest
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Here's a line from "Criminal: United Kingdom".
"Not because we know you'll eventually feel much better for having finally gotten it off your chest."
I know what "get sth off one's chest" means but I can't understand the use of "having". And why is "gotten" used instead of "get"? Thanks in advance.
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Do you understand "feel better for getting it off your chest"? "getting" is the present participle (or in this case so-called "gerund"). Your sentence uses "having got(ten)", which is the perfect participle ("gotten" is AmE; "got" is BrE).
- Do you understand "feel better for getting it off your chest"?
- "getting" is the present participle (or in this case so-called "gerund").
- Your sentence uses "having got(ten)", which is the perfect participle ("gotten" is AmE; "got" is BrE).
- The perfect participle implies that getting it off your chest is a completed action at the time of "feel better".
- However, in your sentence there is in practice little difference in meaning between "getting" and "having got(ten)".
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Do you understand "feel better for getting it off your chest"? "getting" is the present participle (or in this case so-called "gerund"). Your sentence uses "having got(ten)", which is the perfect participle ("gotten" is AmE; "got" is BrE). The perfect participle implies that getting it off your chest
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