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#listening #advanced Get ready for some really challenging questions based on this listening test! Here are some words and expressions you will learn: 1. Replied in apology 2. Exclaimed 3. Hailed 4. Gushed 5. Amidst 6. Bustle 7. It's on me 8. Set out

Phrases and expressions while talking about studying abroad. #listening

💠 Have and Have got 💠 ♦️ 1- When we are talking about possession, relationships, illnesses and characteristics of people or things we can use either "have" or "have got": * I have two sisters. ✅ * I have got two sisters. ✅ * She has blue eyes. ✅ * She has got blue eyes. ✅ ♦️ 2- ONLY Have is correct when talking about actions, experiments or things that we do (In these cases, 'have got' is NOT allowed: * I usually have dinner at 8 o’clock. ✅ * I usually have got dinner at 8 o’clock. ❌ * I have a shower every day. ✅ * I have got a shower every day. ❌ ♦️ 3- "Have got" is for Spoken English Use "have got" in spoken English. Use "have" in your formal written English (business correspondence, etc.). If you are writing an informal message to your friends - on Facebook, for example - "have got" is fine. * I have got a car. (Informal) ✅ * I have a car. (More formal) ✅ ♦️ 4- Note that "have got" is NOT the present perfect of "get". With "have got" we don’t use helping verbs such as do and don’t to form questions and negatives: + He has got a beautiful house. - He has not got a big house. ? Has he got a beautiful house? While with "have" we do use the helping verbs "do or does" to form questions and negatives: + He has a beautiful house. - He does not have a big house. ? Does he have a beautiful house? ♦️ 5- "Have got" only exists in the Present Simple Tense. We don’t use it in the continuous, past or future tenses. * He has a problem. ✅ * He has got a problem. ✅ * He had a problem. ✅ * He had got a problem. ❌ * He will probably have a problem. ✅ * He will probably have got a problem. ❌ ♦️NOTE-1: "Have got" is NOT normally used in the simple past tense "had got"; it is not considered correct to say: * Last year we had got a house in the city. ❌ Rather, "had" alone is used as the simple past. "Had got" is normally heard as an even more colloquial version of "have got". ♦️NOTE-2: The "have" in "have got" is almost always contracted (e.g. I've got, he's got, John's got). In the sense of to be obliged, the "have" is sometimes not contracted when "got" or the subject is stressed in the sentence: * I have got to go there. * I've got to go there. (The two examples above are both common but "I've got to go there." is almost exclusively preferred in spoken English over "I have got to go there."). ♦️NOTE-3: While "have got" and variants are common colloquial usage, in most cases the "got" is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence. When "have got" or "has got" is used as the Present Perfect of get, then got should be retained. Example: "She has got under my skin". ((In American English, one normally says "have gotten" or "has gotten" when forming the present perfect of "get", but nevertheless one uses "have got" or "has got" when the meaning is "to have". In British English, "got" is employed in both usages.

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