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| Aug 27, 2018 at 9:32 | comment | added | DoneWithThis. | 'had got' - fine by me [though it wasn't one of the mentioned options], but the US '...ten' ending just sounds weird to me. Doesn't fit my head space at all; sounds like a cowboy movie from the 50s. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 9:28 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @Tetsujin Both had gotten and had got are perfectly acceptable in North American usage—and they are not uneducated at all. In fact, I'd say that the had (got/gotten) versions of the sentence is more common than the other variations. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | DoneWithThis. | I can't really comment on US usages - but it sounds "uneducated" to me... but you didn't 'see he got' a haircut, you only saw the result. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 8:35 | comment | added | MAT | I would say "and I saw he got a new hair cut" but the 2nd sentence mentioned above (~had gotten a haircut~) was used by a youtuber in his educational video. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 8:33 | comment | added | MAT | but will be acceptable in the US though? | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 8:18 | history | answered | DoneWithThis. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |