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Cy Jung Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

we pretended and we got pretended

hello im learning english now
i have a question.
if you make me understand of it.
im really appreciated of you

sometimes english speakers said "subjective + get + ~pp"
"i get bored"
"i get dressed in black"
"my car got stolen"

but why doesnt "we got pretended" make a sence?
i puzzled about this form.
  

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"pretend" is not a transitive verb. We don't say "Someone pretended me". We can say that someone (or something) bored me, or dressed me, or stole my car, but we can't say that someone pretended me.

— CalifJim

  • "pretend" is not a transitive verb.
  • We don't say "Someone pretended me".
  • We can say that someone (or something) bored me, or dressed me, or stole my car, but we can't say that someone pretended me.
  • We have to say that someone pretended to be me or that someone pretended that he was me .
  • CJ
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"pretend" is not a transitive verb. We don't say "Someone pretended me".

We can say that someone (or something) bored me, or dressed me, or stole my car, but we can't say that someone pretended me. We have to say that someone pretended to be me or that someone pretended that he was me.

CJ
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Get means to change from one state to another
I use this (---> ) to mean "get"

"i get bored"
I am not bored ---> I am bored

"i get dressed in black"
I am not dressed ---> I am dressed (in black clothes.)

My car got stolen.
I have my car ---> My car is gone (Someone stole it.).

I got cold.
I was not cold ---> I w
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