UNIDAD 2 INGLÉS: HAVE GOT
La estructura have got se utiliza para expresar posesión, principalmente en inglés británico, siendo más reducido en el americano. Es una estructura que sólo se utiliza en presente simple.
The structure have got is used for expressing possession, mainly in British English. It can only be used in present simple tense.
I have got a car
‘Tengo un coche’
Se utiliza con entidades tangibles, usando el verbo to be para entidades que no pueden “poseerse", por ejemplo, la edad, el hambre, la sed, el sueño…
It is used with tangible entities, leaving the verb to be for entities which cannot be “owned", for example, age, hunger, thirst...
I have got a house
I am sleepy, nunca *I have got sleep
Su forma es
Its form is
I/you/we/they HAVE GOT (‘ve got en forma contraída/short form)
He/she/it HAS GOT (‘s got en forma contraída/short form)
I/you/we/they HAVE NOT GOT (haven’t got en forma contraída/short form)
He/she/it HAS NOT GOT (hasn’t got en forma contraída/short form)
HAVE I/you/we/they GOT?
HAS he/she/it GOT?
Como se puede apreciar, no requiere auxiliar externo, siéndolo el verbo have.
As you can see, it does not need any external auxiliary verb.
Hay ciertas personas que encuentran dificultad al diferenciar entre have got o have: aclararemos que ambas estructuras son sinónimas, pero conllevan estructuras diferentes, ya que la estructura que hoy estudiamos es independiente, pero el uso de have como verbo principal en presente debe implicar el uso de un auxiliar externo. Compara:
Some people find it difficult to establish the difference between have and have got: both structures are synonymous, but they imply different grammatical structures because the verb have needs another auxiliary verb. Compare:
I have got a car I have a car
He has got a car He has got a car
I have not got a car I do not have a car
He has not got a car He does not have a car
Have you got a car? Do you have a car?
Has he got a car? Does he have a car?
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