"to got off"

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Hello everybody. I came across a strange expression "to got off" in my English book. The sentence is like this, "The bus conductor told Ben to got off". I have also a tape with this text recorded, and they also pronounce "to got off" there. The question is, why "to got off", not "to get off"?

In Google, there are some more examples of the usage of "to got off"...
Can't figure out why this pattern, "to + participle" is used; our English teacher says it's incorrect.

MrPedantic · Accepted Answer

Welcome to English Forums, K48!

I've caught many a bus, but I've never heard anyone say 'to got off'.

It does google, as you say; but with only 230 examples to 1.5 million for 'to get off', it's statistically insignificant. Also, some of the googles for 'to got off' are not infinitives, but bits of other structures.

Unless there's a strange dialect of English somewhere which has muddled its infinitives, I'd say that most of the googles are spelling mistakes. I would guess that the example in your book is also a mistake.

MrP

Abbie1948 · Answer

It's "to get off" the bus.
Past tense - "I got of the bus"

It just means "to disembark"

K48 · Answer

>I would guess that the example in your book is also a mistake.

I should think so. Actually, the book is very old and its author died long ago, but students in Russia still study using his books for all the five years of education

Thanks for advice

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