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Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

get sb. to do/doing sth.

make somebody do something [transitive not in passive] to persuade or force someone to do something

get somebody to do something

I'll get Terry to check the wiring for me.


We couldn't get him to sign the agreement.


get somebody doing something

In the end, we got the children clearing the playground.


The above information is quoted from The LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH ONLINE .




The answer to the below question is choice B. Why is choice C incorrect?

The compositions contained so few errors that the teacher got the students ____ one another's papers.

(A) correct (B) to correct (C) correcting (D) to be correcting
  

Top answer

These are strange to me, even though they are in the dictionary: get somebody doing something In the end, we got the children clearing the playground. thus C ( IMO) wouldn't be a good choice. However, they may be correct, but are quite rare .

— Marius Hancu

  • These are strange to me, even though they are in the dictionary: get somebody doing something In the end, we got the children clearing the playground.
  • thus C ( IMO) wouldn't be a good choice.
  • However, they may be correct, but are quite rare .
  • And I was right: Google hits: 1,360 for "get somebody doing" 52,800 for "get somebody to do"
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These are strange to me, even though they are in the dictionary:

get somebody doing something
In the end, we got the children clearing the playground.


thus C ( IMO) wouldn't be a good choice.

However, they may be correct, but are quite rare.

And I was
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