Please, to those of you who are calling have got sloppy or incorrect, before you make up your mind on the subject, please do a bit of traveling (or travelling, in British English). Reply

MARK- No, it’s continuing. Basically it’s every six months more or less. And certainly in countries that are using it, like America, their programmes are every six months they’re giving shots of it. Have got is not a “sloppy” mash-up of two words. It has the same meaning as our have, but it is treated as an irregular verb. Americans tend to use it less and simply do not teach as the correct form in OUR dialect. Saying that it’s wrong is like telling a Brit that saying “at weekends” is incorrect (other countries do not say “on” weekends… or pronounce the letter “Z” as Americans do, for that matter). The fact is that it is not wrong — it is just not what we are used to in this hemisphere.

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For many people the pandemic is still not over. One group known as the Forgotten 500,000 represents the half a million people across the UK, many of whom are still shielding, who have weakened immune systems, which mean they could become seriously ill or even die if they got COVID. Unfortunately vaccines just do not work for them. NIKKI- But if you’re not feeling in the mood you’re like, well what have I got to give to this conversation. I find it difficult to believe that there is an argument over whether have got or have is correct. Both forms are perfectly acceptable! If you’ve never gone outside the US, logically you won’t be as accustomed to hearing or seeing it. I am American teaching English abroad. As a teacher, you should not only recognize that dialects vary around the world (in more than just English), but you should most certainly teach this fact! P.S. In my (great-lakes US) dialect, at least, for I’ve got to be the present perfect of get, it would need to be I’ve gotten. Just my 2 cents. Reply There were two series in total. Georgie Fame wrote and sang the theme tune for the first, also turning up in two episodes – Once as pop singer Clive Powell (his real name) and later as himself.

There are so many completely incorrect posts that it would be hard to know where to start if it weren’t for AARON’s blaze of ignorance lighting the way. I love his formula: HUW- Well, I think I’d say gently they’re totally different. You can have an overlap. I mean, I’m generally quite an anxious person, but I’m not depressed. Does that make sense? No, Honestly was a comedy series about a husband and wife – struggling actor Charles and successful writer Clara Danby, the author of “Ollie the Otter” children’s stories.

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The difference between Am and Br is simply that our IRREGULAR verb ‘to get’ has a different past participle to the one he has learnt (that’s different too – he probably thinks he’s learned it). Reply PAUL- Yeah, absolutely. We know of people who have had to separate from their close family. It’s drastic the measures that have to be taken. But the consequences of not taking those actions don’t bear thinking about. EMMA- Yeah, she says that her husband should be paid a living wage after being assessed as being her full-time carer. She says making a legitimate and important job would actually help the social care crisis because you would have less carers coming in, and they wouldn’t be trying to work and get money and all that kind of stuff from elsewhere. And she also says that full-time carers could be really useful if unfortunately their, she says, charge dies, they could go into the social care industry because they have so much experience… Who would you say you’re closest to out of the other contestants? Did you forge any unlikely friendships? We use both forms all the time yet we just don’t think about it… in fact, if you start thinking about it, you start to wonder whether it is correct, but it is! You can say I’ve got a new house or I have a new house, it’s the same thing.At the end of the day, both have and have got are acceptable, prescriptivist snobbery notwithstanding. In my experience English learners aren’t really interested in these sorts of BrE / AmE differences (at least at the lower levels), and the exact subtleties of usage can get pretty convoluted. I would just teach them both as equally correct ways of saying the same thing, but make sure to be clear that have got can only be used in the present simple. Reply

You’re wrong that ‘have got’ is the Present Perfect tense. The present perfect is used when something in the past is now relevant to the present, like ‘I’ve gotten the drinks – we can all leave now’. “I have got a sister” is neither the present perfect not the past simple; it’s basically (wrongly) using the form of present perfect to express a past simple meaning.

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For WRITTEN purposes, ‘I have got a/some + noun’ looks plain wrong and clumsy, so I also prefer to write ‘I have…’ PRESENTER- You know when you’re worried about something, but then you talk to your friend who knows more about the subject than you do, and straightaway you start to feel better? That’s what we try and do every day on Newscast.