List,

My previous message on this topic delivered itself before I had finished it.  Here is the complete message.

 

Recently, a student wrote "he got run over."  This seems to be a common way of expressing the passive.

 

Would you characterize this as a passive?  Would you analyze "run" as the verb of the sentence and "got" as a modal operating like "was" in a normally constructed (was run over) passive? 

Scott Woods