I am unclear on why you think this is ungrammatical.  It seems acceptable to me. What is bothering you about it?  I know a lot of people complain when ‘got’ is used as an auxiliary:  ‘My dog got killed by the car.’  This usage seems to be so much a part of the language that I doubt anything can be done about it.  I tell my students that ‘got’ is the illegitimate child of the helping verb family.

 

Janet

 

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Isn’t this a good example of very poor usage? Unless my memory is very bad, it would have been cause for points off in my freshmen composition class. A sad commentary on the state of news writing in 2009

 

But Farley noted that bill sponsor Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr., D-Brooklyn, hasn’t yet gotten a Democrat to introduce the bill in the Senate. The Democrats won control of the Senate this year.

 

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