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Is there a difference between I have got and I have gotten? …

I would use rope-a-dope, but it's got connotations of pretending to lose that I don't need. … I'm trying to describe the behavior of someone who sends twenty detailed emails a day about various projects, and the recipient of his emails has finally gotten tired of trying to parse them, so the recipient …

In spoken English (at least in America), passives are often formed with "to get" rather than "to be;" I would wager the majority of the time: he got hit by a car I get driven to work I've gotten called …

I was arrested with the expression “comics clank a cowbell or two,” and then found another “cowbell” in the subsequent sentence: “If you are a fan of the SNL sketch “cowbell,” you have got to tell Will … Is either “more cowbell” or "clank a cowbell" getting (or has it gotten) currency as an idiom or a buzz word? The “cowbell” is clamoring for me to ask a spell of questions. …

I can't figure out whether to use got or gotten in the following sentence: I no longer recognized my own skin, my own feelings, my own thoughts. … It was as if the real me had got/gotten lost on the highway. Which is the correct form of the verb? …

Isn't gotten AmEng? In BrEng the conjugation of the verb get is get, got, got but wiktionary tells me that gotten is archaic British English. … EDIT TWO On EL&U today I saw this question pop up: Differences between "I have got" and "I have gotten" The highest voted answer says In general, "have got" is the present perfect form of "to get …

When you use 'I got this', you are referring to something in the present, not in the past. Maybe you can get it under control, but you haven't gotten it under control yet. Why do you use past tense? … You scream "I GOT THIS!!!" and then you stop your car just inches away from the car's bumper. It is very clear that you had screamed 'I got this' before you actually got it under control. …

When you say "got it", what is it short for? Is it for: I have it? I have got it? I have gotten it? I got it? (Is this even valid?) Something else? Also: What is the tense of the verb? …

Now, I said something about the lad's clothes and may have gotten misinterpreted. There's nothing wrong with working in farms and getting dirty. … As I got home I was still thinking about that weirdo. I was not resented, but thought to myself: "That was a great puxa-saco I met there". …

I haven't gotten any sleep since Monday I haven't got any sleep since Monday (Are both of these sentences wrong? Should I use "I haven't slept since Monday" instead?) Thank you x …

Possible Duplicate: Difference between “I have got” and “I have gotten” In this example, my teacher thinks it should be got, but I feel like gotten is better: I shouldn't have got / gotten …

Back in grammar, one of the many rules we were given was to always avoid "get," "got," or "gotten" due to their ambiguity and tendency toward poor grammar as in: What happened to your arm? … It got broke. rather than What happened to you arm? It was broken. and I got a ticket. rather than I have a ticket. or I purchased a ticket. …

A: I've got bad news, her brother was in a car accident. B: Is he hurt? A: No, but the car is in bad shape. B: Less bad. … edit @RegDwigнt The car being broken is less bad/worse than the possibility of her brother having gotten himself hurt or dying. …

He got a D." I'm looking for the describing word for that classmate who did not share the same enthusiasm. Edit: The above is admittedly a poor example. … She had just gotten 'poodle'. …

Should the past tense got be used or the past participle gotten? I know it should be conjugated according to 'You have' (present). …