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Patronizing – displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner.

Does patronizing is

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Patronizing – displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner.

When is it appropriate to use “have a..” or “have got a.”

for possession in British and American English?

Writing

Maybe if we start with something we can all agree on: It is generally not appropriate to use “have got”, let alone abbreviated forms, in formal written English, whether in Britain or America. I have got a degree in maths from the University of Bath. It doesn’t sound right for a job application but “I have a degree…” sounds better.

Moreover the difficult question is about English well spoken in different contexts and summarizing this in a way that beginner to intermediate level EFL students can actually understand.

Speaking in Britain

The fact that “have got” and abbreviated forms are not common in written English is a clue about formality: “I have an idea” is slightly more formal than “I’ve got an idea”.

I have done a lot of good work, but still I’ve got a lot, so I don’t use “have” or “have got”, but in most contexts, “have got” is more common. For most students in don’t matter which form they use for spoken English. In summary, in what ways they speak speaking English. See these corpus results for have+idea vs.a corpus. See these corpus results of have+idea for each. to the right. ‘ve got+idea, which display similar numbers of results and little difference in context.

I’d argue that in spoken English either form is more important than the choice of form per se.

I’m from Great

Britain, have no English, and don’t want to write about some issues on this site. Also, I am not good to comment on something that’s going on in America. What about American English? Which EFL language I should use is my opinion a lot for my students since both exist in most spoken contexts but since “have” is more common it is more appropriate.

I tried trying an ngram so I can do my post online in a few

days but it doesn’t help.