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For the question "Have you got any ice cream?" which is correct:

  1. Yes I do
  2. Yes I have

or inversely

  1. No I don't
  2. No I haven't got any
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EDIT: Since the OP changed the tense in his question, I have updated my answer:

  1. Yes, I have.

    or

    Yes, I have got some ice cream.

  2. No, I haven't.

    or

    No, I haven't got any ice cream.

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  • So to follow it through, the first one in full would be "Yes I do I have ice cream"?
    – Chris S
    Commented Aug 14, 2010 at 10:13
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    No. The short form is just "Yes I do" and the long form is "Yes I have ice cream" or "Yes I have some ice cream".
    – Mehper C. Palavuzlar
    Commented Aug 14, 2010 at 10:57
  • Sorry Mehper my question was confused, I've updated it to what I was trying to ask originally
    – Chris S
    Commented Aug 14, 2010 at 19:08
  • Please see my edit.
    – Mehper C. Palavuzlar
    Commented Aug 14, 2010 at 21:58
  • The answer below is more faithful to actual usage. Answers need supporting references.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Jan 21 at 23:04
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For the question "Have you got any ice cream?" which is correct:

Yes I do

Yes I have

The traditional answer would be "yes I have" but "yes I do" is common in American usage and is gaining usage in the UK too.

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  • Though this is doubtless correct, answers on ELU need supporting references.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Jan 21 at 23:05
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Arguably both are correct:

'Have you got any ice-cream?'

'Yes, I have got ice-cream.' -OR- 'Yes, I do have ice-cream.'

In Australia both "I do" and "I have" are used and essentially mean the same thing.

It is the same for the negative forms:

'No, I have not got ice-cream.' -OR- 'No, I do not have ice-cream.'

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    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.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Oct 3, 2015 at 2:41
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Fact is, the more streamlined you can get your students to speak, the better. Short answers first. Yes, I do. No, I don't. I do or don't. Yes, I have. This is clearly more educated and proper and not what's in usage with young people today. As a teacher, I tell my students to read the room. I teach them both, whether they hear the do you have form or have you got form, they decide. I try to make them aware of regional differences, but social media, T.V. and the internet has clearly had an impact. Most importantly, you get them communicating.

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  • "This is clearly more educated and proper and not what's in usage with young people today." I have no idea why you would think that elision isn't in use today with "young people". You really should elaborate.
    – Laurel ♦
    Commented Jan 22 at 20:41
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The pedantic answer is that, if the question is

Have you got . . . ?

the answer should be

Yes, I have.

while, if the question is

Do you have . . . ?

the answer should be

Yes, I do.

However, given that these two questions are nowadays largely interchangeable, many people who are used to the latter form may 'hear' Have you got as Do you have and spontaneously give the answer that matches it, Yes, I do. While it could be argued that this is, by some strict criteria, incorrect, it carries no risk of miscommunication whatsoever, and it is highly unlikely that anybody would be bothered by it.

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"Yes, I do" is essentially short for "yes, I do got some ice cream", which clearly doesn't make sense.

"Have you got?" = "yes, I have" "Do you have?" = "yes, I do"

Just because people say something doesn't make it correct.

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  • The unspoken complication here is that when people respond to the question "Have you got any ice cream?" with the single word "Yes," there's no way of discerning whether they are using "Yes" in their own minds as a truncation of the proper form "Yes, I have got some ice cream" or of the improper form "Yes, I do got some ice cream." In fact, the only way of to determine whether they are using "Yes" correctly or not, is to respond to their "Yes" by asking them directly, "Do you mean 'Yes, I have got some ice cream" or 'Yes, I do got some ice cream?'"
    – Sven Yargs
    Commented Feb 27, 2017 at 7:07
  • "Got any ice cream?" would be another common variant of the question, and "yes, I do" sounds as good a response to that as "yes, I have".
    – Stuart F
    Commented Jan 22 at 11:05

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