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To start vs to get started - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In this way, how to get started would be less formal and much more conversational than how to start Aside from the formal informal distinction, there is a slightly different meaning between start and get started
difference - Lets get started vs. lets start - English Language . . . At best, if being used to introduce something, the grammar would have to change a little, e g Let's get started on building this table vs Let's start building this table (although re-reading that, I think that I would default to the latter, for the sole reason that it's a bit more straightforward of a sentence)
sentence construction - get with past participle - English Language . . . 2 As you say, "started" is a past perfect participle which effectively is an adjective, The program is started It seems to me you can use the "get + past perfect participle" with any verb where the past perfect participle is a similarly idiomatic adjective We need to find a way to get them motivated You'd better leave before you get tired
Difference between has started and is started Actually, the term for has started is "present perfect" You are right, though, that it means that the bargaining started already, and is still in progress
Has started versus will have started - English Language Usage . . . The use of the future perfect tense ("will have started") is the more correct construction there; you are talking about a time in the future, before which time something should have occurred; but that thing has not occurred as of the moment at which you are speaking However, if you were to use the first construction, you would still be understood perfectly well
start to be built or be started to build which is grammatically . . . 1 The first one sounds correct It uses the passive infinitive, which is a grammatically correct way to rephrase "They started to build the castle " The second sentence, "the castle was started", looks as if it is passive, and inverting it back to active results in something like "They started the castle" which does not sound right
When should I use didnt instead of havent? Haven't and didn't are different time-wise, as you have guessed correctly Haven't refers to the past up until now So if you haven't done something, you haven't done it for a specific period of time (day, month, ever, etc ) Didn't refers to a specific point of time that has already passed For example, if it is 7 PM, you could say "I didn't eat dinner at 6" or "I haven't eaten dinner yet