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AppleFanboy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Passive using Get?

I saw in my country's English grammar book that you can't use passive with 'get' when the sentence is expressing the condition of a subject.

What I mean is 'Jessica gets liked by everybody' is wrong and it should be 'Jessica is liked' instead.

But I want to know if 'got angry' and 'got surprised' are wrong ones as well.
  

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AppleFanboy you can't use passive with 'get' when the sentence is expressing the condition of a subject. That's right. The 'get'-passive expresses the action that establishes the condition.

— Mister Micawber

  • AppleFanboy you can't use passive with 'get' when the sentence is expressing the condition of a subject.
  • That's right.
  • The 'get'-passive expresses the action that establishes the condition.
  • AppleFanboy 'Jessica gets liked by everybody' is wrong and it should be 'Jessica is liked' instead.
  • Right.
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AppleFanboyyou can't use passive with 'get' when the sentence is expressing the condition of a subject.
That's right. The 'get'-passive expresses the action that establishes the condition.
AppleFanboy'Jessica gets liked by everybody' is wrong and it should be 'Jessica is liked' instead.
Right.
AppleFanboy
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