have/have got

is there any difference between these two forms of posession? eg. "I have got my own car" vs "I have my own car"

'I have got' is only used in British English.

So in the States, people say 'I got a fever' instead of 'I've got a fever', is that right?

Hi everyone,
nope, this is what I know:

Possession
I have a car. - Yes
I have got a car. - Yes, not common in the US though
I've got a car. - Yes
I got a car. - Yes, sometimes used in speech but not technically correct, so don't use this on English tests.
She has a car. - Yes
She has got a car. - Yes, not common in the US though
She's got a car. - Yes
She got a car. - No. You might sometimes leave out 've (as in "I got a car) but not the 's, so it should be "she's got a car"...

Verb "get"
present: get - I always get some money from her.
past: got - I got some money from her.
past participle: gotten (AmE), got (BrE)

Idiomatic "must" (same comments as for "possession")
I have to go to school. - Yep
I have got to go to school. - Yep, not common in the US though
I've got to go to school. - Yep
I got to go to school. - Yep, used in speech, but not technically correct...
etc...

PS: other forms are sometimes found, but they are not as common as these, and I suspect they are kind of dialectal. For example, I recently found "Hurry up, I don't got much time, so make up your mind!"

Kooyeen wrote:

Hi everyone, nope, this is what I know: Possession I have a car. - Yes I have got a car. - Yes, not common in the US though I've got a car. - Yes I got a car. - Yes, sometimes used in speech but not technically correct, so don't use this on English tests. She has a car. - Yes She has got a car. - Yes, not common in the US though She's got a car. - Yes She got a car. - No. You might sometimes leave out 've (as in "I got a car) but not the 's, so it should be "she's got a car"... Verb "get" present: get - I always get some money from her. past: got - I got some money from her. past participle: gotten (AmE), got (BrE) Idiomatic "must" (same comments as for "possession") I have to go to school. - Yep I have got to go to school. - Yep, not common in the US though I've got to go to school. - Yep I got to go to school. - Yep, used in speech, but not technically correct... etc... PS: other forms are sometimes found, but they are not as common as these, and I suspect they are kind of dialectal. For example, I recently found "Hurry up, I don't got much time, so make up your mind!"

Hi to you kooyeen...

Ok, let's set aside the have as for  "possession".  It's a different topic.

I actually was questioning the sentence pattern for present perfect tense.

   He has given up. (used the past participle)

   I have seen you.  (used the past participle)

Ciao,

IF