Back in my days teaching EFL, we always had terrible difficulty with teaching "To Have". The dilemma:
HAVE you a car?
DO YOU HAVE a car?
HAVE YOU GOT a car?
HAVE you a car?
DO YOU HAVE a car?
HAVE YOU GOT a car?
American vs British English - do we understand each other?
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To me the last two are correct. The first not really.
They are all correct. “Has he a car?” is formal and old fashioned, but is still heard.
(Probably heard within Rees-Mogg's inner circle
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JAS_OH1
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If there are 3 than you can't say "both"!They are both correct. “Has he a car?” is formal and old fashioned, but is still heard.
(Probably heard within Rees-Mogg's inner circle
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Yes it immediately transported me back to the way my grandmother spoke, it has a distinctly 1920’s1930’s feel to it!They are both correct. “Has he a car?” is formal and old fashioned, but is still heard.
(Probably heard within Rees-Mogg's inner circle
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I doubt everyone can see this (unless you employ a VPN), but it gives a well-thought out, highly-researched historical argument for some of our language (and other differences):
View: https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?si=QqY43yIlOix39XLP
I can view it.
It clears up so much. Now, for the advanced edition:
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That's weird. I can see the first one, but not the second! I'll watch the first later. Just about to go back to bed for a catch up on sleep morning until it gets too warm.
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I vote for number 2. I think get and its past tense got and gotten are overused in colloquial English. We seen to "get" everything without any consideration of the words designed for the action involved. Get over-forget, get up - arise, get by - survive, get past - avoid, etc. etc.
Logically and linguistically speaking, that would be the right call. All other regular and irregular verbs, with the exception of "to be", are conjugated like that. I distinctly remember my utter confusion the first time I went to the USA and asked for , let's say, salad dressing.
"Have you got any mayonnaise? "
"Yes we do."
Utterly incongruous, I thought.
A friend of mine wanted an orange drink and some cookies, so he asked for squash and biscuits.
Utterly incongruous, the waiter must have thought. What's this crazy Brit going to do with a pumpkin and some savoury scones covered in white sausage gravy???
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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What is squash (the concentrated sweet drink variety you dilute with water) called in America?Logically and linguistically speaking, that would be the right call. All other regular and irregular verbs, with the exception of "to be", are conjugated like that. I distinctly remember my utter confusion the first time I went to the USA and asked for , let's say, salad dressing.
"Have you got any mayonnaise? "
"Yes we do."
A friend of mine wanted an orange drink and some cookies, so he asked for squash and biscuits.
Utterly incongruous, the waiter must have thought. What's this crazy Brit going to do with a pumpkin and some savoury scones covered in white sausage gravy???
To the best of my knowledge (and I could be wrong), I don’t think we really have those here.