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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

Please explain get married and married - as both verbs and adjectives
  

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" Get married " is what happens at a wedding ceremony. ) Married is a marital state. He is married; she is single; and they are divorced.

  • " Get married " is what happens at a wedding ceremony.
  • ) Married is a marital state.
  • He is married; she is single; and they are divorced.
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"Get married" is what happens at a wedding ceremony. (We eloped and got married last week.)

Married is a marital state. He is married; she is single; and they are divorced.
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Marry also functions as a verb:

My parents married young.
My father married my mother against her parents' wishes.

Our local priest married twelve couples last week.

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