Timeline for "It was broken" vs "It got broken"
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 9:51 | comment | added | JavaLatte | "It got broken"... while "got" is often used inappropriately, using it to distinguish between event and state for verbs like this does occur both in speech and writing. It's worth mentioning, though, that the intransitive form "it broke" is much more widely used, and it can only relate to an event books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 23:02 | history | answered | Luke Baumann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |