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Hans51 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"We have got us a little problem."

"We have got us a little problem."

I think that the meaning of "have got" here is not that of "have" and "got" is the past participle of "get". What do you think? And the meaning of "get" here is similar to that of "give".

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Hans51"We have got us a little problem." Emotion: yes
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Both have got (have) and us (ourselves) are emphatic, idiomatic, and pretty informal. They aren't incorrect, but they can be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning.
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What Canadian45 wrote is perfect, anyway it is not wrong to say 'I have got/ I've got instead of saying 'I have' .

Have you got any money?
Do you have any mone?
Has she got a car?
Does she have a car?

In the past we do not normally use 'got': when she was a child she had long fair hair (not she had got)
Did you have a car when you lived in London?
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I just feel that using '(have)(has) got' to mean '(have)(has)' displays extremely unrefined English.
He has got three brothers.
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canadian45I just feel that using '(have)(has) got' to mean '(have)(has)' displays extremely unrefined English. He has got three brothers. I prefer to restrict 'got' to meaning 'recieved'. But that's just my opinion and it may well be a minority opinion.
Hi canadian45! What I wanted to explain is that both structures are correct and included in grammar books.
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