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have (4): have (got) - possession, relationships and other states 237
have a swim / a walk / a ride / a dance / a game oftennis etc have a try / a go
have a look
have a baby (= give birth)
have difficulty / trouble (in) .. .ing
have an accident / an operation / a nervous breakdown
Note American English take a bathlshowerlrestlswimlwalk.
Have can also be used to mean 'receive' (e.g. I've had a phone call from Sue).
2 grammar
In this structure, we make questions and negatives with do. Progressive forms are possible. Contractions and weak forms of have are not used.
Did you have a good holiday? (NOT Hatl yell a gBBd hBIiday?)
What are you doing? - I'm having a bath.
I have lunch at 12.30 most days. (NOT Pile lllneli ...)
For other common structures in which nouns are used to talk about actions, see 598.
237 have (4): have (got) - possession, relationships and other states
1 meanings
We often use have to talk about states: possession, relationships, illnesses, the characteristics of people and things, and similar ideas.
Her father has a flat in Westminster.
They hardly have enough money to live on.
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
The Prime Minister had a bad cold.
My grandmother didn't have a very nice personality.
Sometimes have simply expresses the fact of being in a particular situation. She has a houseful ofchildren this weekend.
I think we have mice.
2 progressive forms not used
Progressive forms of have are not used for these meanings. She has three brothers. (NOT She is hatJing three hfflthers.) Do you have a headache? (NOT ,4re yell hatJillg a hMtlaehen
3 questions and negatives with do
In American English and modern British English, questions and negatives are commonly formed with do.
Does the house have a garden?
Her parents did not have very much money.
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