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have (HAV) (verb)
1. To possess something: Jack asked, "Don't you already have a car?"
2. To accept; to take: Linda told the waiter, "I'll have the peas instead of the spinach, please."
3. To give birth to; to bear: She told Grace that she was going to have a baby the following month.
2. To accept; to take: Linda told the waiter, "I'll have the peas instead of the spinach, please."
3. To give birth to; to bear: She told Grace that she was going to have a baby the following month.
got (GAHT) (verb)
1. To have come into possession or use of; to have received: She got a cat for her birthday.
2. To have gone after something and to have obtained it: He got a book at the library right after he got his breakfast at the local restaurant.
3. To have acquired as a result of some action or effort: He got his information from the internet.
2. To have gone after something and to have obtained it: He got a book at the library right after he got his breakfast at the local restaurant.
3. To have acquired as a result of some action or effort: He got his information from the internet.
have got (HAV GAHT) (verb)
1. To have or to possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense: The couple have got all that they had ever hoped for.
2. In the sense of "must" or "possess": Jack said, "I have got to leave."
2. In the sense of "must" or "possess": Jack said, "I have got to leave."
Rebecca and Tom said, "We have got plenty of apples and intend to keep them."
I have inherited a large fortune which my father got with sound investments in mineral rights in Canada and so I have decided I have got to plan a long trip to see the world.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group H; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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