GUIDE ENGLISH GRAMMAR BOOK

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Negatives and questions with have and have got
GB/US: We don't have much time. Do you have enough money?
Mainly GB: We haven't got much time. Have you got enough money?
GB only: We haven't much time. Have you enough money?
Negatives and questions with have to and have got to
GB/US: You don't have to go. Do you have to go?
GB only: You haven't got to go. Have you got to go?
Got and gotten
GB:
He's got a new job. (= He has a new job.)
Your driving has got better. (= It has become better.)
US: He's got a new job. (= He has a new job.)
He's gotten a new job. (= He has found a new job.)
Your driving has gotten better. (= It has become better.)
Get someone to do something and have someone do something
GB/US: We got the waiter to bring another bottle.
Mainly US: We had the waiter bring another bottle.
6 Present perfect and past simple
Both the British and the Americans use the present perfect for something in the
past which is seen as related to the present. • 65(2)
GB/US: I've just met an old friend.
Dave has already eaten his lunch.
Have you ever seen St Paul's Cathedral?
I've never had a passport.
But Americans sometimes use the past simple in such contexts especially with just,
already, yet, ever and never.
Mainly US: I just met an old friend.
Dave already ate his lunch.
Did you ever see the Empire State Building?
I never had a passport.
7 Gone and been
The British use been for 'gone and come back', • 84(6), but the Americans mostly
use gone.
GB/US: Have you ever been to Scotland?
US only: Have you ever gone to Florida?
8 Will and shall
The British use will or shall in the first person, • 71(2). Americans do not often use
shall.
GB: We will/shall contact you.
US: We will contact you.