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Styler1 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Got to/have got to

Why are these used in past tense? Is there no specific reason like an idiom, or are people just misusing it?
  

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Have to go=got to go=gotta go. Yes, indeed got is the past form of get but sometimes it is used in a colloquial kind of way.

  • Have to go=got to go=gotta go.
  • Yes, indeed got is the past form of get but sometimes it is used in a colloquial kind of way.
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Have to go=got to go=gotta go.
Yes, indeed got is the past form of get but sometimes it is used
in a colloquial kind of way.
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akstylishlike an idiom
Yes. It's an idiomatic expression.

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CJ
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It's not formal though, is it?

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