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Eunjinny Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Got risen

"The ceiling got risen high."
For any case, can i use this sentence?Like "we got settled in a seat."

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The sentence should be "The ceiling got raised high" -- the verb you need here is "raise", not "rise". " You could use this sentence to refer to a physical ceiling (in a building) that was physically raised high, or "ceiling" could have a figurative meaning, as in an income tax ceiling for example. (There is an idiom "to raise the roof" which means "to have a riotously good time", but I don't think I've ever heard "raise the ceiling" used in this sense.

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  • The sentence should be "The ceiling got raised high" -- the verb you need here is "raise", not "rise".
  • " You could use this sentence to refer to a physical ceiling (in a building) that was physically raised high, or "ceiling" could have a figurative meaning, as in an income tax ceiling for example.
  • (There is an idiom "to raise the roof" which means "to have a riotously good time", but I don't think I've ever heard "raise the ceiling" used in this sense.
  • ) "We got settled in a seat" is OK.
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The sentence should be "The ceiling got raised high" -- the verb you need here is "raise", not "rise". This use of "get" to form passive-like sentences is often fine in everyday speech and writing ("The vase got broken", "I got beaten at chess") but in this sentence it seems clumsy to me, so normally I would say "The ceiling was raised high."

You could use this sentence to refer
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