Have and have got

 Have and have got show possession (ownership). 

They are the same meaning. Have got is often used more  in British spoken English. Have is more American.

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Let’s look at have: 

Positive                             Negative  

I have a big garden.          I don’t have a big garden.

You have a nice flat.         You don’t have a nice flat.

We have a long day.          We don’t have a long day.

They have a child.             They don’t have a child.

BUT he/she/it is different:

He has a good job.            He dean’s have a good job.

She has an electric bike.   She doesn’t have an e- bike. 

It has four legs.(dog)       It doesn’t have four legs.(a hen)

Let’s look at have got:

I’ve got a brother.            I haven’t got a sister.

You’ve got a nice family.  You haven’t got a nice family.

We’ve got many books.     We haven’t got many gadgets.

They’ve got a cat.              They haven’t got a dog.

BUT he/she/it is different:

He’s got a headache.          He hasn’t got a toothache.

She’s got a MacBook.        She hasn’t got a tablet.

It’s got four wheels. (car).  It hasn’t got two wheels.

confusing verbs -have or have got?

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Have got and have mean the same. Have got is more informal.                                                            We use have (got) here to refer to both verbs:  

I’ve got a terrible pain in my back.                                                                                                I have a terrible pain in my back. (more formal)

They haven’t got a car.                                                                                                                     They They don’t have a car. (more formal)

We use have (got) to talk about possession, relationships, characteristics and illnesses.                      In these contexts, it is not used in the continuous form.

She’s got two cats and a dog. She has two cats and a dog. 
Not: She is having got two cats and a dog.
Have you got a drill?  Do you have a drill? (more formal)

How many brothers have you got?
How many brothers do you have? (more formal)

 She’s got a new boyfriend.

 She has a new boyfriend. (more formal)

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'make' or 'do' ?

 

do

You do an exam. But there are no easy rules to follow. We always use do to describe indefinite activities, often with what, thing, anything, nothing, etc and generally speaking we also use do to talk about duties, jobs or (leisure) activities. Look at the following examples:

• 'What shall we do now?' 'You can do what you like. I'm going home!'
• 'He didn't do anything. He just sat there.'
• 'You expect me to do everything around the house. Well, I'm fed up!'
• 'I did all my homework last night so tonight I'm going to do the housework.'
• 'I did a lot of research and I think I did a good job on that essay. I did my best anyway.'
• 'I intend to do lots of walking on holiday this year, and perhaps some bird-watching too.

  make

We often use make when we are talking about constructing, creating or performing something. Study the  examples:

• 'I made three suggestions and left it to him to make the final decision.'
• 'I've made all the arrangements for the trip and I've made a great effort to get it all right.'
• 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to make my excuses and leave.'
• 'I have to make three phone calls.'

CHOOSE THE CORRECT VERB:

1.       MAKE            DO      THE CLEANING AND THE COOKING

2.       MAKE            DO      A LASTING IMPRESSION (ON SOMEONE)   

3.       MAKE            DO      THE SHOPPING AND WASHING UP

4.       MAKE            DO      SOME SERIOUS WORK

5.       MAKE            DO      A LOT OF DAMAGE (TO SOMETHING)

6.       MAKE            DO      AN ANNOUNCEMENT OR SPEECH

7.       MAKE            DO      AN APPLICATION (FOR A DRIVING TEST OR JOB)

8.       MAKE            DO      A SOUND OR NOISE

9.       MAKE            DO      SOMEONE’S HAIR

10.     MAKE            DO      A LOT OF HARM RATHER THAN GOOD

11.     MAKE            DO      BUSINESS WITH SOMEBODY

12      MAKE            DO      SOMEBODY A FAVOR

13.     MAKE            DO      LOVE, NOT WAR

14.     MAKE            DO      A MESS, A PROFIT, A FORTUNE

15.     MAKE            DO      FUN OF SOMEONE OR A FOOL OF SOMEONE

16.     MAKE            DO      AMENDS FOR ONE’S BEHAVIOUR    

 

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do the cleaning and the cooking                             make a lasting impression (on someone)
do the shopping and the washing-up                    do some serious work

do a lot of damage (to something)                         make an announcement
make an application (e.g. for a driving test)          make a sound or a noise
do one's hair or one's teeth                                    do a lot of harm rather than good
do business (with somebody)                               do (somebody) a favour
make love, not war                                               make a mess, a profit or a fortune                      

make fun of someone or a fool of someone         make amends for one's behaviour

Confusing Verbs:borrow and lend

The difference between lend and borrow is the following.

Lend means to give something and borrow means to take something.

For example:

Could you give me some money, please? / Could you lend me some money, please?
She took some money from me. / She borrowed some money from me.

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Confusing Words: live, life, lives

First read the rules, then click on the exercises.                             Thank you goes out to Englisch-hilfe
Exercise 1: life, live or lives

Exercise 2: life, live, lives or lived

Word	Explanation	Example
live [lɪv]he lives [lɪvz]	to live (verb)	I live in France. Peter lives in Poland.
life [laɪf] lives [laɪvz]	state of living plural of life	I read a book about the life of Mark Twain. Many people lost their lives in the war.
live [laɪv]	not recorded; not dead	We watched the live coverage of the Formula I. We really saw a live rattlesnake.

 

 

tell say speak say

Practice makes perfect!

 

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look see watch? Help!

These can be confusing verbs, but they don't have to be!  Look here:
After studying the examples, it is time to practice.

1. You can't_____ far in this fog.
2. Fred and Jane_____ well tonight.
3. May I have a_____ at it ?
4._____ you tomorrow, if nothing comes in between !
5._____ out for pickpockets !
6. Did you_____ 'Lost' yesterday ?
7. Can you _____the red car on the left ?
8. Hey ! What's wrong ? You really_____ unhappy tonight !

 

to watch

Like to look, but these things can change

He watches TV in the evenings.

to see

Visual impression come to our eyes Understand

Can you see the blue car over there ? I see what you mean !

to look

To pay attention To try to see what is there

Look at the board , please ! You can look up the words in the dictionary.

say or tell

Tell and say have the same meaning, but they are used differently:

	TELL		SAY

 

                                   a lie                                                      your name

                                the truth                                                           sorry

                                the time                                                     a prayer

                             a joke/story                                                 something

            the difference between two things                     thank you/hello/goodbye

                       someone what to do                                           yes /no

Tell always needs a personal object in a sentence:

He told me a lie.

I told him to stop shouting

Say doesn’t need a personal object, but “to + personal object” can be added at the end of necessary:

He said sorry (to me).

Compare these two sentences (which both mean the same):

                                                           He told me something.

                                                           He said something (to me).

We use say in direct speech:

He said, “Hello.”

PRACTICE

________the time                               ________the truth

________ a prayer                             ________hello

________your name                           ________a lie

________something                            ________a joke

________sorry                                   ________a story

________the difference                       ________the police the story

________yes                                      ________someone a secret

________a story

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Confusing Verbs:USED TO and WOULD- another practice

Dishwashing Days

Read the Paragraph

In the 1950s, women (1wash) dishes in the kitchen sink. A woman (2wash) the dishes immediately after everyone finished a meal. Her husband (3rarely–wash) dishes because it was not considered to be his job. A wife (often–do) the dishes by hand. She (4do) the dishes three times a day. I remember that my mother (5have) a special towel just for dishes not for hands.

She (6get) angry if we dried our hands with it. She (7be) a very strict mother. Did your mother (8have) the same rule? She would use a separate towel for dishes, wouldn't she? My grandmother (9do) the dishes for thirty years. Then she bought a dishwasher. Last year, she (10use) a dishwasher for the first time and will never go back to hand-washing the dishes!

1 would/used to
2 would
3 would
4 would
5 used to
6 would
7 used to
8 used to
9 would/used to
10 used

 

Confusing Verbs: an advanced quiz

Are you seeing at the airplane in the sky?
Are you looking at the airplane in the sky?

When you think abut it carefully, you know the preposition 'at' is the clue to usage.

see + object
look + at + object

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Confusing Verbs: LIE and LAY

                                                        (legen oder  liegen?)

BASE FORM             SIMPLE PAST                       PAST PARTICIPLE

lay                               laid                                          laid

lie                                lay                                           lain

 Lay means "to place something down." It is something you do to something else. It is a transitive verb. ( to put-takes an object)

                        Incorrect: Lie the book on the table.

                        Correct: Lay the book on the table.
                        (It is being done to something else.)

Lie means "to recline" or "be placed." It does not act on anything or anyone else. It is an intransitive verb. (to recline-does not take an object)

                        Incorrect: Lay down on the couch.

                        Correct: Lie down on the couch.
                        (It is not being done to anything else.)

The reason lay and lie are confusing is their past tenses.

The past tense of lay is laid.

The past tense of lie is lay.

                        Incorrect: I lay it down here yesterday.

                        Correct: I laid it down here yesterday.
                        (It is being done to something else.)

                        Incorrect: Last night I laid awake in bed.

                        Correct: Last night I lay awake in bed.
                        (It is not being done to anything else.)

The past participle of lie is lain. The past participle of lay is like the past tense, laid.

Examples: I could have lain in bed all day.

They have laid an average of 500 feet of sewer line a day.

Layed is a misspelling and does not exist. Use laid.

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Confusing Verbs: RAISE and RISE

The basic meaning of the two verbs, 'raise' and 'rise', is almost the same - moving up, from a low position to a higher position, either physically or metaphorically. The difference between them is grammatical.
'Raise' needs an object, and 'rise' cannot take an object. Example, “I think that the government of this country needs to raise taxes.” ('taxes' is the object of the verb);   OR “ I think that taxes need to rise.”    “We are always talking about the need to raise standards. ('standards' is the object of the verb)   OR  “Standards need to rise.”

raise / raised / raised(transitive verb) rise / rose / risen   (intransitive verb)

1. If you have any questions, ___ your hand and I'll try to help you.
raise
rise
2. The student ___ a very good question about the importance of security in the big cities.
rose
raised
3. The sun ___ in the east.
rises
raises

4. Our community ___ money for the victims of the plane accident.
is rising
is raising

5. He ___ to an important position in the company.
rose
raised

6. She's ___ three children without her husband's financial support.
raised
risen
7. Unemployment ___ quickly in the metropolitan areas.
is rising
is raising
8. They ___ chickens on their farm.
rise
raise
9. The price of gas ___ by 5%.
has raised
has risen

10. Don't ___ your voice to me! I'm still your boss.
rise
raise
11. The people decided to ___ up against the new government politics.
riseraise

 

 

Key

1.      raise your hand

2.      raised a good question

3.      rises in the east

4.      is raising money

5.      rose to an important position

6.      has raised three children

7.      is rising quickly

8.      raise chickens

9.      has risen

10.  raise your voice

rise up against

Confusing Verbs: USED TO and WOULD

When we talk about things that happened in the past but don’t happen anymore we can do it in different ways.

Used to

• We used to live in New York when I was a kid.
• There didn’t use to be a petrol station there. When was it built?

We can use ‘used to’ to talk about past states ….

• I used to go swimming every Thursday when I was at school.
• I used to smoke but I gave up a few years ago.

… or we can use ‘used to’ to talk about repeated past actions

Remember that ‘used to’ is only for past states/actions that don’t happen now – we can’t use it for things that still happen now. Also, ‘used to + infinitive’ should not be confused with ‘be/get used to + ‘ing’ form’ – this is covered in a separate section.

Would

• Every Saturday I would go on a long bike ride.
• My teachers would always say “Sit down and shut up!”

We can use ‘would’ to talk about repeated past actions.

Often either ‘would’ or ‘used to’ is possible. Both of these sentences are possible.

• Every Saturday, I would go on a long bike ride.
• Every Saturday I used to go on a long bike ride.

However, only ‘used to’ is possible when we talk about past states.

• We used to live in New York when I was a kid.
• We would live in New York when I was a kid.

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