>>Where are silver, platinum, tin, wool, wheat, palm oil, >>furs and cacao got from?
>Obviously the person who came up with this question failed >the grammar test.
How is it that such an idea has got abroad? Actually, you're judging 19th and even 18th century standards of grammer by our modern dumbed-down standards. Using ``...got from'' is actually proper English, for writings preceding circa 1950. By example you can see grammer like this used extensively in old writings like http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/AOR2.html Mr. paine being a prolific writer during and after the American Revolutionary war, his phamplet http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/commonsense.html provoked the war, and it uses such grammer. Writings of the other Founding Fathers are similar, as are many of the writings contained in collections like ``The Havard Classics'', of which are far too numerous to quote here. It's curious to note that these sort of writings were mandantory before 1900, but ignored by `educators' today. Even old movies regularly depicted the well-to-do using such grammer.
Perhaps we don't speak that way today, but who are we, products of a dumbed-down educational system, to judge the grammer of those who spoke and wrote far better than anyone now is capable of? We have so much too learn from people who lived prior to 1900, so perhaps we should spend more time learning proper English and many other things from them, and less critising their grammer of yesteryear.