Welcome to your “Have got” / “How many” / Question Tags lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• “Have got”
• “How Many”
• Question tags
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“Have got”
To talk about what someone has, we use “have got”.
“Have you got a car?”
“No, I haven’t.”
| Affirmative | Interrogative | Negative | ||
| full form | contracted form | full form | contracted form | |
| I have got | I’ve got | Have I got? | I have not got | I haven’t got |
| You have got | You’ve got | Have you got? | You have not got | You haven’t got |
| He has got She has got It has got |
He’s got She’s got It’s got |
Has he got? Has she got? Has it got? |
He has not got She has not got It has not got |
He hasn’t got She hasn’t got It hasn’t got |
| We have got | We’ve got | Have we got? | We have not got | We haven’t got |
| You have got | You’ve got | Have you got? | You have not got | You have’t got |
| Thay have got | They’ve got | Have they got? | They have not got | They haven’t got |
“How Many”
“How many” is used to ask about a countable quantity :
“How many brothers have you got?”
“I’ve got two.”
We use the form “How many + plural noun + auxiliary + subject + verb?” :
“How many books have you got?”
“I’ve got a lot of books.”
Question tags
When we’re asking for confirmation for things, we add question tags to the end of an affirmative or negative sentence:
“You’re not cold, are you?”
The subject used in a question tag is always a personal pronoun:
“Sarah is French, isn’t she?”
If the sentence is affirmative, the question tag is “auxiliary + not + subject” :
“Mark is late, isn’t he?”
If the sentence is negative, the question tag is “auxiliary + subject” :
“Jane isn’t German, is she?”
Careful!You mustn’t confuse the different uses of ‘s : “He‘s young.” → ‘s = is “He‘s got a dog.” → ‘s = has “Mark‘s dog.” → possessive |
