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He was getting vs being beaten
I would need to understand the difference here:
He was being beaten.
He was getting beaten.
I know "get" + ppt can be either passive voice or a change of state. What is that in this example? I ...
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How different is “Be rid of somebody” from “Get rid of somebody”? Are they interchangeable?
In the movie review article of Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” in the New Yorker magazine (November 14) titled “the Man in Charge,” there was the following sentence:
“A single scene with Robert F. ...
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Use 'got' instead of 'was'? [duplicate]
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Why is “to get” sometimes used where “to be” could be used?
Sometimes I hear people say things like this:
I just got robbed.
(Personally I would rather say 'I was ...
