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Have and Have got Negative

Introduction
Have/have got is a verb used to express states like possession, relationship, illnesses and the
characteristics of people and things.

When expressed in its negative form, the verb denies something about the subject.

Form
The present simple tenses of have and have got are:

To have
Its structure, in the negative form, is:
Subject + do/does + not + have + object + …

Do/does: in the negative form, the third person singular changes from do to does.
Subject do/does + not have Short form
I do not have don’t have
You do not have don’t have
He does not have doesn’t have
She does not have doesn’t have
It does not have doesn’t have
We do not have don’t have
You do not have don’t have
They do not have don’t have
To have got
Its structure, in the negative form, is:
Subject + have/has + not + got + object + …

Have/has: in the negative form, the third person singular changes from have to has.
Subject have/has + not + got Short form
I have not got haven’t got
You have not got haven’t got
He has not got hasn’t got
She has not got hasn’t got
It has not got hasn’t got

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We have not got haven’t got

You have not got haven’t got
They have not got haven’t got

Example
To have:

I do not have dinner at 8 o’clock.

He doesn’t have three cats.
We don’t have a room for the guest.
They don’t have enough money to buy a car.

To have got:

You haven’t got time to talk to me.

She hasn’t got five brothers.
You haven’t got the guts to talk to me.
They haven’t got any evidence against you.

Use
We use don’t have and haven’t got when we deny that someone possesses
someone/something. We use them also to express relationships, illnesses and characteristics of
people and things. However they’re not completely interchangeable.

To have:

can be used to express actions;

can be used to express past, present and future.
To have got:

cannot be used to express actions;

can only be used to express the present.

Related
Have and have got in its negative form denies something about possessions, relationships,
illnesses, and characteristics of the subject. We can also confirm something in Affimative form [1]
and deny something in Interrogative form [2].

In English, you can use to have [3]in intimate communications.

At A2 level, you can learn more about have [4]as an auxiliary model verb.
At B1 level, you can learn about have [5]as an auxiliary verb.

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