Get has a lot of meanings in English, but which one is used in phrase get paid? Get is often used for describing a change of state, similarly to become. But does get paid fall into this case? From what I know, when used with the verb in ING/ED state it means "begin with". Considering the change of state, should I think of it as that a person who gets paid is "becoming paid", and also his state changes to "paid" when he possesses the money?
An additional question: My textbook says that GET + adjective expresses the change of state but I think it also applies to ppt past participle of verbs, right?
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In the words of noted Minnesota folk grammarian Robert Zimmerman:
These are all examples of "change of state". The examples using get above follow the same pattern as your own "get paid". To wit, get here just means become. |
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This is the so-called Get Passive, which works exactly the same as the Be Passive, except that different forms of get are used instead of be.
There is occasionally a minor distinction between the two constructions, in that the Get Passive can imply more responsibility by the agent than the Be Passive. One difference between
and
is that the speaker of the second example, with got, may be implying that Bill was not blameless in the arrest. There is even an idiomatic construction
which definitely implies that Bill did it on purpose. |
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