get + PAST PARTICIPLE – English Grammar Profiler

Passive ‘GET‘ + past participles is a way of using ‘get’ instead of ‘be’ in the passive voice in informal spoken English. It often refers to accidental or unexpected actions that we don’t want.  For example:

If we don’t get caught, 

it‘s not gonna matter who it was we stole from,

 and we‘re not going to get caught.

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She got hit by a car.

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Oh, that‘s so nobody accidentally gets thrown out.

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In the English Grammar Profile, B1 Point 5 in the category of passives is defined as:

a range of forms of ‘get’ + past participles.

A search in iWeb for:

GET _VVN

does not always give us passive forms:

1 GET RID 313567

Although this is not a passive example, it’s a PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE using the infinitive form of GET + PP:

I would like to get rid of my bad habits.

Korean, Female, Level 3, Writing Class

2 GET STARTED 233345

3 GET PAID 68050
4 GET CAUGHT 54284 5 GETTING RID 51398 6 GET INVOLVED 46551

7 GET MARRIED 44997 NOT PASSIVE

Are you going to get married?

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8 GETTING STARTED 42688 idiomatic 9 GETTING MARRIED 29183 10 GOT MARRIED 28836 11 GOT RID 25420 12 GETTING PAID 19640 13 GET ASKED 18184 14 GOT CAUGHT 16740 15 GET HIT 16687 16 GETTING CAUGHT 14701 17 GOT STARTED 13004 18 GET DRESSED 10607 19 GET NOTICED 10228 20 GETS RID 9673

21 GOT HIT 8956

22 GET DISTRACTED 8575 This is a past participle as adjective.

Quit getting distracted by all the girls

 and all the other stupid stuff.

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23 GET CARRIED 8303 24 GETTING HIT 8090 25 GET TESTED 7226 26 GET LAID 7088 27 GET DISCOURAGED 7056 28 GET SUCKED 6709 29 GET ACQUAINTED 6613 30 GET SENT 6505 31 GET PICKED 6391 32 GOT INVOLVED 6353 33 GET USED 6345 34 GETTING DRESSED 6186 35 GETS CAUGHT 6179 36 GETS PAID 6064 37 GET CALLED 6015 38 GET ORGANIZED 5753 39 GOT PAID 5747 40 GET FIRED 5684 41 GET THROWN 5562 42 GET PULLED 5520 43 GET PASSED 5133 44 GET KNOCKED 5096 45 GET TURNED 5088 46 GET HUNG 5045 47 GET PUSHED 5005 48 GET NOTIFIED 4982 49 GET DAMAGED 4955 50 GET BOGGED 4884 51 GET TRAPPED 4815 52 GOTTEN RID 4812 53 GET LEFT 4782 54 GETTING INVOLVED 4744 55 GET BURNED 4738 56 GET CONFUSED 4680 57 GET TAKEN 4560 58 GET KICKED 4527 59 GET KILLED 4503 60 GET MADE 4439 61 GET LOST 4399 62 GET HOOKED 4366 63 GET PROMOTED 4342 64 GET INSPIRED 4290 65 GET CHECKED 4152 66 GET CHARGED 4087 67 GET PUT 3952 68 GET TREATED 3899 69 GET ARRESTED 3886 70 GETS SENT 3846 71 GET PUBLISHED 3842 72 GET ELECTED 3770 73 GETS HIT 3669

74 GETS THROWN 3661

75 GOT HOOKED 3654 76 GET REWARDED 3610 77 GET EATEN 3554 78 GET SETTLED 3462 79 GOT KICKED 3435 80 GET INVITED 3407 81 GETS CALLED 3341 82 GOT FIRED 3320 83 GETS PUT 3279 84 GET CHANGED 3151 85 GET MIXED 3119 86 GET SWEPT 3109 87 GET LOCKED 3087 88 GET STRESSED 3055 89 GOT CALLED 3054 90 GET ADDED 3026 91 GET BLOWN 3015 92 GETTING LAID 2964 93 GET TOLD 2918 94 GET CONNECTED 2839 95 GET EXCITED 2816 96 GET SCREWED 2807 97 GET DROPPED 2804 98 GET RELEASED 2778 99 GET SET 2761

100 GETS PASSED 2720

A2:

added, called, checked, dressed, hit, killed, lost, married, mixed, passed, picked, pulled, pushed, set, thrown, turned