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Mizansinha007 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Teach me, please!

#1. I got married.

Here, 'got' & 'married', both are "Past Participle Form" of Verb's. So, How is it possible to use 'two Verbs' beside each other. Thanks everyone.
  

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"got" is actually the past tense there, not the past participle. "to get married" is to some extent idiomatic, but grammatically it could be interpreted as an alternative type of passive construction (alternative to "to be married"). Other examples of this: "the window got broken", "he got beaten up".

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  • "got" is actually the past tense there, not the past participle.
  • "to get married" is to some extent idiomatic, but grammatically it could be interpreted as an alternative type of passive construction (alternative to "to be married").
  • Other examples of this: "the window got broken", "he got beaten up".
  • Otherwise, you could say that "got" means "became", and "married" is adjectival.
  • Other examples with adjectives: "it got very noisy", "I got cold".
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"got" is actually the past tense there, not the past participle.

"to get married" is to some extent idiomatic, but grammatically it could be interpreted as an alternative type of passive construction (alternative to "to be married"). Other examples of this: "the window got broken", "he got beaten up".

Otherwise, you could say that "got" means "became", and "married" is adjectival
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