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Stevenukd Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

GET SOMEONE DRUNK

Daughter: Daddy! I'm home.
Father: Are you drunk?
Daughter: I'm not drunk, I feel very happy tonight, ha ha ha ha ha.
Father: Did you get her drunk?
Uncle: No, I just went to the bar with her, and she drank a lot.

- Does "Did you get her drunk?" mean "Did you force her to drink beer or alcohol?"?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

Stevenukd
  

Top answer

" But there are many ways to get someone drunk without "forcing" him/her. One might expect that an uncle who allowed his niece to get drunk while in his company would be held responsible by her father. We'd have to know more about the habits of these particular relatives to guess exactly what the father meant.

— Avangi

  • " But there are many ways to get someone drunk without "forcing" him/her.
  • One might expect that an uncle who allowed his niece to get drunk while in his company would be held responsible by her father.
  • We'd have to know more about the habits of these particular relatives to guess exactly what the father meant.
  • It's very unlikely that the father suspected the uncle of forcing liquor on the niece.
  • But stranger things have happened.
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You know the old saw, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."

But there are many ways to get someone drunk without "forcing" him/her. One might expect that an uncle who allowed his niece to get drunk while in his company would be held responsible by her father.

We'd have to know more about the habits of these particular relatives to guess exactly what the f
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StevenukdDoes "Did you get her drunk?" mean "Did you force her to drink beer or alcohol?"?
No. Not force. get simply means cause, not usually or necessarily by force. "Did you cause her to become drunk?" or "Are you the cause of her being drunk?" are better paraphrases.
CJ
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i.e. Did you buy her lots of alcohol?
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Hi CJ,
Thanks for you good explanation.How about his ?
let's get her know to others

I think the meaning is different from your examples right?

Kind Regards
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sunsaillet's Let's get her know to others.
This sentence is a bit anomalous. I don't imagine it's used much. However, get does mean cause here as well, in a general sense. Let's cause her to know others. More specificall
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Hi CJ,
sorry I mistyped it. it is "let's get her known to society"
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CalifJim
sunsaillet's Let's get her know to others.
This sentence is a bit anomalous. I don't imagine it's used much.
Hi, CJ. To me, "anomalous" hardly does it justice. What am I missing?

I coul
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AvangiI could accept it with the infinitive: "Let's get her to know others."
This is what I thought it said! Haw!
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sunsail"let's get her known to society"
With that past participle, you need to add become to the paraphrase:
Let's cause her to become known to society is the general idea.
Nevertheless the idea of causation is still present, and you're still not capitalizing as you should.
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Hi CJ,
I heard it while I was watching cnn.I think it sounds like causative structure and you donot need "become" phrase.

But the Democrats helped McCain to get her known.
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/obamas-big-mistake-not-picking-hillary,1649/
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