To this American English teacher, it sounds wrong. It's 'got' - simple past (How anyone got onto the train was a mystery.) or 'have gotten' - past participle (How could anyone have gotten onto the train?)
Now, if it's being written so that you have a 3rd person limited omnicient narrator who has less than perfect grammar it could stand as a stylistic choice. But very technically, in the US we teach get/got/have gotten.
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Date: 2006-04-20 07:56 pm (UTC)Now, if it's being written so that you have a 3rd person limited omnicient narrator who has less than perfect grammar it could stand as a stylistic choice. But very technically, in the US we teach get/got/have gotten.
*shrug*