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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

"Things get change" or "Things get changed"

Hi,

I am bit confused. Sometimes we use "Things get change" and sometimes "Things get changed". Are both of these correct ?

I hate it when things get changed at the last minute.
How things get changed no one knows.
Also -
Things get change with time.

As per grammar books -

We commonly use get + adjective to mean ‘become’ or to describe a change of state or situation.

So it should be "things get changed" only.

Thanks!!
  

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Anonymous Sometimes we use "Things get change" Actually, we don't use that. It's wrong. Anonymous Things get changed This is very strange.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Sometimes we use "Things get change" Actually, we don't use that.
  • It's wrong.
  • Anonymous Things get changed This is very strange.
  • We don't typically say this.
  • We say Things change .
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AnonymousSometimes we use "Things get change"
Actually, we don't use that. It's wrong.
AnonymousThings get changed
This is very strange. We don't typically say this.

We say Things change.

CJ
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Many thanks for your quick response.

I have seen people using "things get changed" and "things get change" very often. Even when I search Google, I get thousands of such uses. Have even seen in ads as well which caused confusion.

Does that mean there is no such construct - something + get + verb ?

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From your link: Does things get change in 5 years?

That sentence has two bad errors, not just one.
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The link shows an ad that almost certainly was written by a non-native.

If you have something + get + verb, the verb has to be in past participle form. The structure is only used for certain verbs, most of them expressing negative events: get broken, get torn, get spoiled, get fired, ...

CJ
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Thanks CJ.

Apologize to ask two more questions -

1) Do we have this structure - something + get + (verb in past participle form) in passive form or active form? Would appreciate if you could please give few examples.
2) What about something + got + verb ? Does it also work in the same way ?

Kumar
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kumareng1) Do we have this structure - something + get + (verb in past participle form) in passive form or active form? Would appreciate if you could please give few examples.
The structure is called "get passive", so it's always a passive type of structure, but not a true passive, which is formed with be.
kumareng2) What
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