Timeline for Answering "Have you got" questions with "I do"
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| Oct 3, 2015 at 2:41 | comment | added | John Lawler | In the USA, the same. Either I do or I have is acceptable; the first because do is short for do have, which is what have got means. The second because have is the auxiliary for have got. Speaker's choice. As I've said before, in the USA have got has a special meaning -- it's replaced most of the occurrences of the 'possess' sense of have, and muddies the waters of the rest, as here. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 7:58 | history | answered | Dog Lover | CC BY-SA 3.0 |