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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What got into or what's gotten into?

When do we need to use "what got into"?
and when do we need to use "what's gotten into"?
  

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' AmE speakers often like to use 'gotten', but BrE speakers hardly ever do. Rover

  • ' AmE speakers often like to use 'gotten', but BrE speakers hardly ever do.
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2 Answers
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You never need to use 'What's gotten into?'

AmE speakers often like to use 'gotten', but BrE speakers hardly ever do.

Rover
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"Got" there is unidiomatic in my dialect. "Gotten" is the regular past participle in American English in most uses of "got".

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