It is 2009 now. Bill went to Paris in 2007. He went to Paris 2 years
ago.
since.
later.
Get is a complicated little verb. The past of get is got. But it is very different from another important use of "got". What happened to Bill in Paris?
He got lost.
He got out of Paris.
He got over it.
"Some guy" got a taxi cab for Bill (and this French guy paid for the taxi cab!). "Some guy" =
A stranger.
Bill's brother.
Bill's mother.
What did the French guy do?
He got a cab for Bill.
He got Bill a cab.
Bill got a cab on his own.
Bill went to Paris a couple of years ago. Went is the past form of