r/EnglishLearning • u/canivola New Poster • Jan 15 '24

šŸ“š Grammar / Syntax What does my teacher expect me to answer?

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u/WeeabooHunter69 Native Speaker Jan 15 '24

Personally I'd say has gotten, has got feels very off to me

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u/herbstkalte Non-Native Speaker Jan 15 '24

OP is probably studying UK English rather than US English. 'Gotten' is not used in modern UK English.

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u/Juunlar New Poster Jan 16 '24

Those mfs eat black pudding, so no one should be listening to them

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '24

I am a native English speaker with English citizenship living in the US.

Both forms are used in both places, although with different frequencies. Each of the two forms has a different meaning, although the meaning is the same in England* as it is in the US.

Conventionally, "has got" is present tense, and means the girls are currently in possession of high scores. "has gotten" is past tense, and means the girls previously experienced the act of getting high scores. In both England and in the US, we would almost always describe a high score as an event rather than as a possession, so the teacher is actually making a mistake here, and weeaboo hunter's intuition is correct.

  • I said "England" and not "UK" because I'm intentionally not describing Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, which have many localized ways of using English that neither of us know about

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u/Individual-Pianist84 New Poster Jan 16 '24

Same but Iā€™m American and American English is kind of broken