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Jun-god Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Is this right? "have to=have got to=got to"

0Well,, yesterday, My Private english teacher said that Americans usually consider these sentences.02br
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01u00I have to do this.02u02br
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01u00I have got to do this.02u02br
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01u00I got to do this.(=I gotta do this)02u02br
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00So, "got" in last sentence is not a past of the verb "get", it is same meaning as "have" in first sentence.02br
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00I got it. = I have it. 05002br
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00Is this right? I think that this idea is right, but those examples sound little bit awkward.010id35
  

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com "I've got to do this" 02b 02br 00(quotation marks are necessary) 02br 00For the past you may use:02br 00I 01b 00had02b 00 got to do it. com+%22I%27ve+got+to+do+this+%22+&btnG=Search241

— Marius Hancu

  • com "I've got to do this" 02b 02br 00(quotation marks are necessary) 02br 00For the past you may use:02br 00I 01b 00had02b 00 got to do it.
  • com+%22I%27ve+got+to+do+this+%22+&btnG=Search241
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0 Yes, they're right, but the 2nd would be most frequently seen as: 02br
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00You can test your expressions by searching at:02br
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01b00site:nytimes.com "I've got to do thi
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0Thank you so much! 02br
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00and also thanks for the serching tip in google!05002br
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00that looks really helpful~!010id1
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0 I'm not fond of 'have got' in any situation, but I realize it is very common.02br
00I have never heard "I had got to do it" meaning 'have got' in the past. 0-
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1i00I got to do this02i00 is ungrammatical and should be avoided as no verb in it is in the present tense. 01i00I have got to do this02i00 is not used in the past tense and only the affirmative form is possible. In other words, 01i00I haven't got to do this02i00 is wrong.02br
00CB 0-
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0I got to do... I agree with CB. I would never say this.02br
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00Note things like "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do" uses the contracted form of "has" 02br
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00The only exception I can think of is the colloquial "Ya gotta do what you gotta do."0-
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0 See 05000.02br
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01cite10Cool Breeze12cite10In other words, 11i10I haven't got to do this12i10 is wrong.12blockquote
10 True, 01i00haven't got02i00 is rarely used in the obligation meaning, but it's perfectly fine in the possession meaning: 01i00I haven't got a pen02i0
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01cite10Jun-***12cite10So, "got" in last sentence is not a past of the verb "get", it is same meaning as "have" in first sentence12blockquote
10Hi Jun-***,02br
00yes, "got" is sometimes equivalent to "have", not only in the idiom "have got to".02br
01b00I got to do it02b00 = I have
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0CoolBreeze said:02br
01i00>I have got to do this02i00 is not used in the past tense and only the affirmative form is possible02br
00I wouldn't be so sure. 02br
00"01b00I had got to do02b00" is found in BrE, these are just some examples from the BBC, if you need something from the literature I'm sure I saw it ther
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10CoolBreeze said:12br
11i10>I have got to do this12i10 is not used in the past tense and only the affirmative form is possible12br
10I wouldn't be so sure. 12br
10"11b10I had got to do12b10" is found in BrE, these are just some ex
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