Timeline for "have" vs."have got" in American and British English
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 4:18 | answer | added | MKL | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 19:58 | comment | added | Kalamane | Plenty of Americans use "I've got [something]" without ever using "I have got [something]." | |
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | David M | @eureka not really. That would be I just got. I have got is just the expansion of I've got. I've got a sister. She's 35. I didn't just get her. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 11:10 | answer | added | Terpsichore | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 10:15 | comment | added | hungneox | "I have got a pen" means you just got it recently. | |
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| Aug 10, 2013 at 20:48 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Aug 10, 2013 at 13:14 | answer | added | Julie | timeline score: -5 | |
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| S Aug 5, 2013 at 15:28 | history | bounty started | Mari-Lou A | ||
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 18:33 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 28 | |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:50 | history | edited | SC for reinstatement of Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:14 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | "In addition, there are several references to "have got" being more informal than have"[end] Users will ask, might as well save time and post the one or two posts/answers who state this. | |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:08 | comment | added | SC for reinstatement of Monica | @Mari-LouA: Do you mean in relation to 'have got' being preferred in the UK? | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 15:02 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @TrevorD: I redid the Ngram to compare "Do you have" and "Have you got". The results show that "Do you have" is replacing "Have you got" in both the U.K. and the U.S., but the U.S. is definitely farther along in the process. | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:38 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Can you post one or two links that said one form was preferable to another? If you remember where, of course. I know it can be a bit difficult to find exactly what you need! | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:32 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:17 | comment | added | SC for reinstatement of Monica | @Mari-Lou A and TrevorD: I didn't post examples of negative and interrogative structures because the positive is enough, I believe, for my question. How it's rewritten in the negative/interrogative is irrelevant in making it more or less informal... isn't it? | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:12 | comment | added | SC for reinstatement of Monica | @Mari-Lou A: My students also have trouble getting the structures right. I guess that'll be a fairly universal learning difficulty. | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:10 | history | edited | SC for reinstatement of Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 13:02 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Change the have+got format into the past and learners will produce: "Had you got breakfast? (I'll delete the above examples when Sara posts hers.) | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | TrevorD | @SaraCosta Can you please give some example phrases or sentences of the types of usage you are referring to? | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I have always emphasized to private students that both forms are interchangeable and commonly used in the UK. Whereas the "Do you have....?" and the negative form, "I don't have..." is perhaps more commonly used in the US. I have steered away from "gotten have" because that form is never found in tests or written exams. This construction, I reserve for some students at Intermediate level. | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 12:15 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I'm not convinced that Italian learners consider BrEng" I have got..." to be more formal than "I have..." That it is not my experience, but it is true they get confused about when to use one or the other. Although their meanings (with exceptions) are identical. The question form: "Have you got....?" vs. "Do you have...?" leave them often asking "Why?" and Is one better, or more correct? | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 12:14 | comment | added | TrevorD | @PeterShor 1. The question appears to be about have v. have got - not got v. gotten. 2. gotten is certainly not common in the UK and would, I think, instantly be viewed as an Americanism. | |
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 11:16 | comment | added | Peter Shor | It's definitely considered more informal in the U.S. This doesn't mean it's not used extensively. This Ngram shows that there's not much difference in the frequency of "have got/have gotten" in the U.S. and the U.K. | |
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