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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

He gets married to her

I suddenly got confused with the verb use in present tense.

If I say, he eats pizza, this means it's not that he doesn't eat pizza but he eats. Probably, this means as he eats other food he eats pizza too.

Here when I use a verb marry, I get confused. If I should say 'He gets married to her', does it make sense? Isn't it different from #1 and #2 below?

1. He is going to get married to her.

2. He is getting married to her.
  

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-- Boy, you've confused me now! Anyway, 'he eats pizza' means that it is a food he generally eats on occasion. -- No, it doesn't, because we don't marry the same person generally and on occasion; we do it once only (Elizabeth Taylor excepted).

— Mister Micawber

  • -- Boy, you've confused me now!
  • Anyway, 'he eats pizza' means that it is a food he generally eats on occasion.
  • -- No, it doesn't, because we don't marry the same person generally and on occasion; we do it once only (Elizabeth Taylor excepted).
  • Only in a narration would you use this form: "The story starts when they meet.
  • They have a whirlwind romance and then he gets married to her.
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If I say, he eats pizza, this means it's not that he doesn't eat pizza but he eats.-- Boy, you've confused me now! Anyway, 'he eats pizza' means that it is a food he generally eats on occasion.

'He gets married to her', does it make sense?-- No, it doesn't, because we don't marry the same person generally and on occasion; we do it once only (Elizabeth Taylor except
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