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Cup cake Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Got or gotten?

Hi Everyone,

I just saw this sentence in the Cambridge online dictionary:

'She ?asked me if I ?knew who had got the ?job.'

Shouldn't - got - be gotten?

I would say: 'She asked me if I knew who got the job'

or

'She asked me if I knew who had gotten the job.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks
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Americans use "gotten" but most other English-speaking countries have "got" for that form. To get: Get, got, gotten To get: Get, got, got I always find it puzzling, since they do say I forget, I forgot, I have forgotten, but with "get" the last form is gone. But note that your source was Cambridge, with is of course, British English, so using "gotten" would be wrong there.

— BarbaraPA

  • Americans use "gotten" but most other English-speaking countries have "got" for that form.
  • To get: Get, got, gotten To get: Get, got, got I always find it puzzling, since they do say I forget, I forgot, I have forgotten, but with "get" the last form is gone.
  • But note that your source was Cambridge, with is of course, British English, so using "gotten" would be wrong there.
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Americans use "gotten" but most other English-speaking countries have "got" for that form.
To get:
Get, got, gotten

To get:
Get, got, got

I always find it puzzling, since they do say I forget, I forgot, I have forgotten, but with "get" the last form is gone. But note that your source was Cambridge, with is of course, British English, so using "gotten" would be wrong t
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Thanks BarbaraPA.

I have to say, the fact that only Americans use 'gotten' is news to me.

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Cup cakeI have to say, the fact that only Americans use 'gotten' is news to me.
Someone on this forum (some time ago and I don't know who) has challenged that. Apparently some Brits do use "gotten" (but maybe not those who were educated at Cambridge).

CJ
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'Gotten' is not correct in BrE.
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Did you go to Cambridge CJ?
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Cup cakeDid you go to Cambridge CJ?
No, but I went to Oxford.

As a tourist.

CJ
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Lol..
You could've fooled me. Emotion: stick out tongue
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I have to say, the fact that only North Americans use 'gotten' is news to me.
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I don't think that's fully correct. In fact, over here, if someone says 'got' in same context as in my original sentence, s/he is considered to be part of a lower socio economic bracket., or people would think you just didn't do well at English in school.
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