have / have got
a controversial topic for Italian
students
Have/have got to say that
something is mine
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I have a nice house with a garden
I ’ve got a nice house with a garden
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I don’t have a house with a garden
I haven’t got a house with a garden
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Do you have a house with a garden?
Have you got a house with a garden?
Forms:
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Subject + have / have got + object
Subject + don’t/doesn’t have + object
Subject + haven’t got + object
?
Do/Does + subject + have + object?
Have/Has + subject + got + object?
Some examples:
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I have a new car or I’ve got a new car
Sue has got long hair or Sue has long hair
Do they have any children? NOT: Have they
any children?
Tim doesn’t have a job or Tim hasn’t got a job
NOT: Tim hasn’t a job - IT’S WRONG!!!
How much time have you got? Or How much
time do you have?
My parents have a holiday flat on the French
Riviera or My parents have got a holiday flat
on the French Riviera
Have/have got to say that you’re not
healthy (=you have an illness)
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I have a headache
I ’ve got a headache
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I don’t have a cold
I haven’t got a cold
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Do you have (the) flu?
Have you got (the) flu?
Have for actions
(=performing an action)
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I usually have breakfast
NOT: I usually have got breakfast
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I don’t usually have breakfast
NOT: I usually haven’t got breakfast
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Do you usually have breakfast?
NOT: Do you usually have got breakfast?
Now make up the rules
yourself:
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Use ‘have’ & ‘have got’ + object to talk
about ……… and ……….
To make the negative form and questions
of ‘have’ use ……..
To make the negative form and questions
of ‘have got’ don’t use ……..!
Use ……….. AND NOT ………. to talk about
actions
A question for you:
How do we use
these forms in the
past?
Yesterday…Two days ago…
Last week…Last month…
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I had a headache
NOT: I had got a headache
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I didn’t have a cold
NOT: I hadn’t got a cold
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Did you have flu?
NOT: Had you got flu?
THIS IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE FORM!!!