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OttoJ Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Get told
Do they mean the same and are they equally correct?
-We get told to sit down and wait.(if something happened not long ago, we can use the simple present tense, like US president Obama says the US is not going to get involved in the dispute.)
-We got told to sit down and wait.
-We get told to sit down and wait.(if something happened not long ago, we can use the simple present tense, like US president Obama says the US is not going to get involved in the dispute.)
-We got told to sit down and wait.
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OttoJ -We get told to sit down and wait This is part of a narration of an event. OttoJ -We got told to sit down and wait This is a statement of past fact.
- OttoJ -We get told to sit down and wait This is part of a narration of an event.
- OttoJ -We got told to sit down and wait This is a statement of past fact.
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OttoJ-We get told to sit down and waitThis is part of a narration of an event.
OttoJ-We got told to sit down and waitThis is a statement of past fact.
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Mister MicawberThis is part of a narration of an event.In daily life, when we give a narration of an event, talking about the past, can we still use the simple present tense 'get told'?
-We get told to sit down.... (not got)
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OttoJIn daily life, when we give a narration of an event, talking about the past, can we still use the simple present tense 'get told'?If that is the general tense of the narration, certainly.
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khoff"We were told . . . " is probably more common.In news, I've heard several times this:
-We get told (that) if we want to have a good view of the harbour, we have to come early.
This 'get told' followed by a that-clause is not the same thing as the one I mentioned in the first post.
1. Do you think 'get told' can be used because
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OttoJ khoff"We were told . . . " is probably more common.In news, I've heard several times this:-We get told (that) if we want to have a good view of the harbour, we have to come early. This 'get told' followed by a that-clause is not the same thing as the one I mentioned in the first post.1. Do you think 'get told' can be used because they were recently told/told not lon
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No, MM did not. He said 'get told' is possible when the general tense is the present tense (=the present tense is used throughout the entire narration talking about a past event); but this statement does not solve the problem as to whether 'get told' and 'got told' are the same when, for example, someone asks us why we are here, to which question we might reply by saying that 'we get/got told that
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OttoJwhether 'get told' and 'got told' are the same when, for example, someone asks us why we are here, to which question we might reply by saying that 'we get/got told thatYou cannot use 'get told' in that case.
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