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Ok this is a grammar problem.. the ."sentence " ready to get caught"?

do you use the word caught or catch? because if she use the world be instead of get, then you would use caught but she didn't. and you can't be ready for something that already happened right (caught)? So would the world catch fit in this sentence more? like are you ready to get catch by the police?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A fish, or a girl, or a criminal, can be "ready to get caught."

    In this use, the word "get" means "become" and the word "caught" is a past participle, the past tense of the verb "catch" being used as an adjective.

    Compare it to more straightforward past participles:

    This book is ready to be written.

    The fish is ready to be baked.

    The criminal is ready to be arrested.

    Source(s): Friendly neighborhood grammar lady
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I have always been an advocate for letting the punishment fit the crime. Maybe instead of the death penalty, this scumbag should have his spinal cord severed and forced to live as a quadriplegic. Of course that still leaves the matter of being shot in the face four times by a .40 caliber at close range and enduring all the surgeries that Officer Gonzalez has had to face. Maybe the death penalty is the best option, but none of that quick relatively painless (by comparison to Officer Gonzalez pain and suffering) lethal injection, or electric chair. The ancient Chinese had a punishment that every day the prisoner had a body part removed, starting with the feet and working upward. The body part was then boiled and fed to the prisoner, so that he slowly ate himself to death. No cost for food to the taxpayers. Cruel and unusual punishment? Not in my opinion.

  • 1 decade ago

    That construction, "be/get caught," uses the past participle, so "caught." That doesn't make the sentence about the past because it isn't the verb. The "are" is the verb. More examples:

    They got divorced. (past-"got')

    He is going to get married (future-"be going to")

    She is frightened. (present-"is")

    Don't be disappointed. (present-"don'tbe")

    I don't plan to get drunk. (present-"don't plan")

    Think of the "caught" as an adjective.

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