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Also, make sure that you travel with proper medical insurance so that if you are sick or injured while traveling you will be able to get treatment.

Shouldn't have been passive voice? but treatment is not past participle

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  • This is a good question, but please don't post pictures of text. The picture adds nothing that couldn't have been expressed by just typing the sentence.
    – stangdon
    Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 11:39

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Your example sentence:

Also, make sure that you travel with proper medical insurance so that if you are sick or injured while traveling you will be able to get treatment.

No, you don't need any past participles, passive-voice constructions or anything like that. The sentence is absolutely fine as it stands. You're just failing to fully grasp the semantics of it. The word treatment there is a noun (a mass noun, to be more precise) which is basically just a short form of medical treatment (medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury). And the verb to get is used to mean to receive. So, we could actually paraphrase your sentence in the following way and it would mean exactly the same thing:

Also, make sure that you travel with proper medical insurance so that if you are sick or injured while traveling you will be able to receive medical treatment.

If you want the word treat to be used as a past participle, then the full expression would be something like this: to get treated for something. Where something specifies what you want to be treated for. But I don't think it will work as well as the way the sentence is originally written:

Also, make sure that you travel with proper medical insurance so that if you are sick or injured while traveling you will be able to get treated for your injuries.

I hope things make sense to you now. If you still have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

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  • okay, now gets more clear. but if we eliminate "for your injuries" (the last expression) still it is right?
    – Farid S
    Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 12:43
  • No. It would sound incomplete. How exactly are you going to get treated? With candy? Will you be treated well? You need more information because the verb treat in English can have many different meanings.
    – Michael Rybkin
    Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 12:50
  • @FaridS If you eliminate "for your injuries" in the last expression, you would use the noun "treatment". Which is exactly what the writer of your article has done.
    – EllieK
    Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 13:26

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