Is it appropriate to use short form of “have” ('ve) when it means possession? Can you contract the main verb in a sentence? Is we've equivalent to we have? In some cases, they do seem to be correct, but sometimes they don't. Consider these 4 sentences. We've got a problem here. We have got a problem here. We've a problem here. We have a ...

2010年8月13日 · (You'd've thought I would've already forgotten about it by now.) Contractions like I'd've, you'd've, and she'd've are uttered often enough in colloquial speech; so, the main question is: How would you spell them in written quotations? One way is to replace have with of in an attempt to preserve the tone of the colloquial speech. Plenty of ...

I think "I've a car" is fine, but unusual on its own: as part of a longer sentence it's unexceptionable: "I've a car in the garage". I suspect this is for prosodic reasons: "I've a car" has no word you can stress, other than "car", so people tend to change it to either "I have a car" or "I've got a car".

2020年2月10日 · We could say we had our copy replaced five years ago, and today it looks worn out. We could say we just have had our copy replaced, and the book is as good as new. To use grammar labels, "I have had the book replaced" is the Causative in the Perfect Aspect, in the Present; "I had the book replaced" is the Causative in the Simple Aspect, in the ...

2013年10月22日 · You might also use it thus: "That boy will send me to an early grave, I swear" or "I swear I've eaten far too much!", in which case "I swear" is used simply to add strength to an exclamation, rather than to make a definitive statement whose veracity is being addressed. "Have had" is a perfect tense.

2010年11月24日 · *I've gotten the answer. *I've gotten plenty. but uses I've got as in informal BrE. The availability of gotten does however mean that AmE can make such distinctions as the following: They've got to leave (they must leave) They've gotten to leave (they've managed to leave). From the The Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language.

2017年5月22日 · I have run into resistance every time I’ve tried to solve the problem. She has run from her responsibilities. Regarding the problem that arises when forming the past participle, some people mistakenly use the past tense ran instead of the correct past participle run, as in I have ran into resistance every time I’ve tried to resolve this ...

2013年3月18日 · I've been working on the railroad all the live-long day. emphasizes the continuity and ongoingness of this work. If the song lyrics were. I have worked on the railroad all the live-long day. then the same material facts would be presented: the speaker started working on the railroad at the beginning of the live-long day and continues to do so now.

2012年5月18日 · Neither. This is a case (one of many) in which the two forms are equivalent in meaning. This is aided by the fact that in English the two sentences are pronounced identically, since the /vdʒ/ cluster in /ayvdʒəstə'rayvd/ I've just arrived is very difficult to pronounce, and is normally shortened to just /dʒ/, which makes it indistinguishable from I just arrived.

as far as I know , when we use present perfect , we explain something with more details, for instance , when you say I've studied,means you studied all your notes and completely ready for your exam . but when say i studied , it means you did but not seriously and complete , just looked on some lessons.when you say I've seen that movie means you ...