Hello and welcome to our Peppy Question of the week. I will give a Peppy Answer to it back.
By the way, Peppy mean fast. It means quick. It mean,
(Finger Snapping Sound)
Very, very quickly done.
Anyway, so, our Peppy Question of the week comes from Mauricio from Brazil, who asked me,
Steve, I want to know why some people say in a question, “Do you have?” and other people say, “Have you got?” I have seen some people in films say “Do you got?”
Can you please explain the difference and which one I should use?
Well thank you Mauricio, first of all for your question. It is a very, very valid one and it is one that I have gotten a lot through the years.
What I can say to is that, when are speaking in an informal way in English, we actually mixed the two together. And you will hear many people say “Do you got?”
And in fact, you can say one or the other, you can say “Have you got?” “Have you got” is the same as saying “Do you have” okay?
Now, who uses which “Do you have” is typically an American structure. It is an American question. Americans and some Canadians will say “Do you have”.
Now the British will use “Have you got”, now what is happened of course is that the two have mixed okay? Like many things mixed in this life and we have many people saying in informal English “Do you go”.
Is that correct? No.
The people say it? Yes.
So once again, it is one of those things that people say but grammatically, as English teachers, we would say that “Oh, that is not grammatically correct, but we do use it when we are speaking” okay?
So Mauricio, I hope that answers your question. Separating the difference between “Do you have”, “Have you got” and “Do you got” which is a mixture of the two.
And that is our Peppy Answer of the week and I look forward to our next Peppy Question on YouTube for next week.
Bye-bye.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services