5 Answers. In general, “have got” is the present perfect form of “to get” in UK English, while “have gotten” is the US English version. However, even in US English, “have got” is used in certain instances, namely to mean present tense have (in the sense of possession, or to mean must): I have got a lot of friends.

Is “Gotten” Correct? People in the United States and Canada use gotten for the past participle of got in most cases. People in English-speaking countries outside of the United States and Canada usually use got.

Summary: Got or Gotten?

1. Use got when referring to a state of possessing something.
2. Use gotten when referring to a process of “getting” something.

“Just seeing the word is enough to set the hair of some British English speakers on end. Yet, despite the many claims that it is an Americanism, it is most definitely of British origin and the Oxford English Dictionary traces its first use to the 4th century.

The mention of formal usage suggests that the rearguard action had narrowed its focus to style, but still it was doomed. In 1942, Eric Partridge’s Usage and Abusage accepted the return of gotten: it was “obsolete in Great Britain… but in the U.S.A., gotten (past participle) is preferred to got”.

gotten | Intermediate English past participle of get: If you hadn’t gotten sick, we’d be in Hawaii now. She’s gotten used to having me around. Gotten is also used with “have” to show that someone has recently come to possess something: I’ve gotten (= I recently bought) a new pair of glasses.

Typically, an unreal conditional sentence begins with an if clause containing the past tense or past perfect tense of a verb followed by a conditional clause containing a modal verb such as “would.” Consider the following sentences: If I had told you the answer, I would have been cheating.

Conditional Sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses. They are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled. There are three types of Conditional Sentences.

GOTTEN is a valid scrabble word.

gotten | American Dictionary past participle of get: If you hadn’t gotten sick, we’d be in Hawaii now. She’s gotten used to having me around. Gotten is also used with “have” to show that someone has recently come to possess something: I’ve gotten (= I recently bought) a new pair of glasses.

Editor’s Note: (1) Both got and gotten are considered acceptable as the past particple of get in North America. The same was true in Britain until about 200 years ago. Authorities there now prefer got. In Canada and the U.S., by the way, has gotten often implies a recent acquisition.

What is another word for gotten worse?

Yes, it is. The past tense is “had got,” and it is okay to use when the context calls for it.

Re: Is have got present perfect? It’s a present perfect form. Its meaning is nearly identical with the present simple I have a pen. In American English we usually use got as a past participle only when to have got means “to possess”; that is, it could be replaced by to have.

John Alexander Stang, former English teacher, translator, writer & proofreader. “Had gotten” is correctly used in American English when referring to the past (participle) process of obtaining something. When implying ownership—or in British English—”had got” is the correct form.

A complete sentence always contains a verb, expresses a complete idea and makes sense standing alone. This is a complete sentence as it contains a verb (reads), expresses a complete idea and it does not need any further information for the reader to understand the sentence. When Andy reads is an incomplete sentence.

Five of the sections will include the five parts: Capital Letter, Subject Noun, Predicate Verb, Complete Thought, and Terminal Punctuation.

No. A sentence should have at least subject and verb to call it a sentence. As such, the word ‘yes’ is not a complete sentence.