Have/Have got - Affirmative

Have/Have got is a verb used to express states like possession, relationship, illnesses and the characteristics of people and things.

When expressed in its Affirmative form, the verb confirms something about the subject.

Have and Have got are two variations of the verb.

Present simple of “to have” - Affirmative

The Affirmative form of the verb to Have has this structure:
Subject + have/has.

• Have/has : In Affirmative form the third person singular changes from “have” to “has“;
• There is no short version of have in the Affirmative form for 3rd person of singular.

SUBJECT	VERB HAVE	SHORT FORM
I	have	I’ve
You	have	You’ve
He	has	—
She	has	—
It	has	—
We	have	We’ve
You	have	You’ve
They	have	They’ve

Present simple of “to have got” - Affirmative

The Affirmative form of the verb to Have got has this structure:
Subject + have/has got.

• Have/has : In Affirmative form the third person singular changes from “have” to “has“.

SUBJECT	HAVE GOT	SHORT FORM
I	have got	I’ve got
You	have got	You’ve got
He	has got	He’s got
She	has got	She’s got
It	has got	It’s got
We	have got	We’ve got
You	have got	You’ve got
They	have got	They’ve got

Have

• I have lunch at 2 p.m.
• She had two dogs; She has two dogs; She will have two dogs:
• She has a lot of time.

Have got

• I have got lunch at 2 p.m.
• She had got two dogs; She has got two dogs; She will have got two dogs:
• She’s got a lot of time.

When Have and Have got are used in Affirmative form, the verb confirms something about the subject. There is almost no differences in meaning between them.

Have and Have got are used similarly to express possession, relationships, illnesses and characteristics. However they’re not completely interchangeable, below you can read the differences between them:

Have:

• Can be used to talk about actions;
• Can be used to talk about past, present and future.

Have got:

• Cannot be used to talk about actions;
• Can be used just to talk about the present.

Have and Have got are two forms of a common verb. We use them to express states such as possession, relationship, illnesses and characteristics.

When used in its Affirmative form, something about the subject is confirmed. However, we cannot use either one of them instead of the other all the time.

Have can be used to talk about actions, past, present and future.

• The Affirmative form has this structure:
  Subject + have (“has” for the third person singular);

Have got cannot be used to talk about actions. Can be used just to talk about the present.

• The Affirmative form of the verb to Have got has this structure:
  Subject + have got (“has” for the third person singular).

For example:
— “I have a shy personality.” / “I have got a shy personality.“= We use Have because it is an action.
— “I’ve got a car.” = We use Have got because we talk about possessing something in the present.

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