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Any difference between these sentences: "Why did you have me born?" and "Why did you give birth to me?"
The questions are different.
Job is talking to God. God didn't "give birth to Job", but you might say that God caused Job to be born.
The person who gave birth to Job would have been his ...
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"It got me confused" - incorrect, then why "she got him confused by.." is correct?
it got me confused
(where "it" is a situation) is a completely correct construct. One of the meanings of "get" is to cause something to happen.
He got me ready
It got me fired
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What is the difference between "He got himself injured" and "He got injured"?
This is an example of an intensive pronoun. Other articles on intensive pronouns: Grammarly, Grammar Monster.
"He got injured" does not describe how he was injured.
"He got himself ...
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Any difference between these sentences: "Why did you have me born?" and "Why did you give birth to me?"
From just reading the question I didn't surmise that this referred to something biblical. Still, I thought that the two sentences are different.
"Why did you give birth to me?" can only be ...
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Any difference between these sentences: "Why did you have me born?" and "Why did you give birth to me?"
James K's answer is correct.
The others not so much.
Job was born to his mother.
She "gave him birth".
But, God arranged for Job to be born.
A problem is that you are quoting a version that ...
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Any difference between these sentences: "Why did you have me born?" and "Why did you give birth to me?"
That sentence does sound odd, because it’s trying to translate the grammar of a different language very literally. If I had to guess, the translators wanted to preserve the verb form of the original (“...
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you've gotten it right!
Yes these are the simple past and two forms of the present perfect. There are two forms because there are two possible past participles: "gotten" (Common in American English, less common in ...
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What is the difference between "get + verb+ and "verb"?
They both mean the same, but I would consider "he got robbed" as more colloquial, and I wouldn't expect to see/hear it in more formal situations
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Difference between 'had something done' and 'got something done' as causative verb
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The use of the past participle after the object of the causative verb HAVE in your example is fine, and both examples are correct.
The causative verbs got and had here have similar meanings, but ...
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"Get them to thinking"
Both sound fine to me as a native speaker, though the first ("get them to thinking") implies the speaker wants "them" to engage in a continuous action.
That said, as an American, I feel like "get ...
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What is the name of this rule
"Bored" can be a verb (past tense of to bore) or a noun (the state of boredom).
"Boring" can be the present participle of the verb to bore, or it can be an adjective to describe something that causes ...
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Getting silent vs being silent
To "get adjective" usually means "to become adjective, as a process". For example,
My nephew got taller over the summer.
or
The animals get sick if they do not have enough to eat. But they ...
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I'll have him call you vs I'll get him to call you
I'll have him call you.
suggests that the speaker is i a position to give orders to "him". In contrast
I'll get him to call you.
might suggest more persuasion than an order, but this ...
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"It got me confused" - incorrect, then why "she got him confused by.." is correct?
it got me confused.
The usage shown in your example is illustrated in Cambridge Dictionary
get in this context is defined as cause as in "to cause something to happen, or cause someone or ...
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got us to lose the match
The first of OP's examples...
1: The referee made us lose the match by disallowing two of the goals we scored
...will occasionally be used by some speakers seeking to avoid the relatively "...
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"Did the glass get broken"
Yes, "Did the glass get broken?" is equivalent in the same way as you outlined to "Was the glass broken?", "Has the glass been broken?", and "Did the glass become ...
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"Hope it's over" vs "Hope it gets over"
Neither are really correct, as the best for, is probably
Hope it’ll be over soon.
“It’s over” suggests something in the present, but that’s not accurate for the verb “is.” In other words, as @...
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"Cool down" vs "getting cool"
Both sentences are valid and mean pretty much the same thing. My totally subjective feeling is that "cool down" sounds better.
I don't know what you mean by "we use get almost for ...
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Causative construction with 'get'
(3) is wrong because shooted is not a valid verb form. The past tense is shot.
(2) Get someone [verb]ing doesn't work for a single action. You could say 'She got me shooting rabbits' meaning that she ...
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Using a causative sentence with future auxiliaries
ACTIVE VOICE:
1: John will do it tomorrow (John may or may not know this yet)
CAUSATIVE:
2: We'll / We will have John do it tomorrow (John probably doesn't know this yet)
3: We are having John do it ...
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Using a causative sentence with future auxiliaries
Your pairing is not helpful for understanding.
Someone will clean the windows over the weekend
does not mean that someone other than the speaker will clean the windows. It is merely a prediction ...
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"Get them to thinking"
The text is from a book and the expression is in a dialogue.
to is used for purpose or finality in English.
He got me to think the Earth was flat. [and end result of what he got me to do]
He got me ...
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"Get them to thinking"
While it certainly sounds informal, it makes sense to me. Maybe you can understand it better like this:
get them to think... = get them to [a point at which they will] think...
get them to thinking.....
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He is getting admitted in a college vs. He is being admitted in a college
"Being admitted" would be the common usage. That would imply that "he" met all of the requirements, and the process of admission was underway.
As you point out in the question, "getting" can have a ...
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Does "get" have a more active or urgent meaning than "have"?
Not exactly, although to some extent this is so. There are lots of different nuances in when to use get and when to use have (and when you can or can't use either one), so learning how to use them ...
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Can GET + past participle be explained as acquisition of state?
Get X'ed can mean
you actively did something to become X'ed - I got my car washed at the car wash.
or
something/someone else did something to you, but you could not or intentionally did not ...
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Can GET + past participle be explained as acquisition of state?
RESEARCH:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/auxiliaryverb.htm
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/get?s=t
http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-to%20marry.html
http://conjugator....
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Have something do something
I do not like your version. I would say either of these two:
"I have GCC to compile my C programs." OK
"I use GCC to compile my C programs." Better
There is no sense in which you instruct GCC to do ...
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Have something do something
Yes, your example works. But you can only do that in a limited number of situations.
You would not say "I have the vacuum clean my carpets", or "I have the oven cook some potatoes".
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In this sentence (let's get started). The ( 's) is shortcut for what?
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