— ABC7News (@ABC7News) December 8, 2015Did you know the State of PA got hate mail (phone calls) for the license plate with the slogan "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania" because it's grammatically incorrect? By using "you've got", it should be "you've gotten". Or else they'd have to say "You have a friend in Pennsylvania". Either way, oops. They changed it back to Keystone State a few years later.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Basic Conjugation
They beat the Redskins, or they have beaten them. From the Grammarist: "got beat". This is incorrect grammatically, but is firmly established in slang, especially in North America." News agencies should not be using slang, or our society is doomed.
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