A
SSISTANT
: We haven’t got any lager today.
J
ENNY
: Oh. What kind of beer have you got, then?
A
SSISTANT
: We haven’t got any.
J
ENNY
: No beer? OK, I’ll have a glass of wine.
A
SSISTANT
: Red or white?
J
ENNY
: Red, please.
A
SSISTANT
: We haven’t got any more red, unfortunately.
J
ENNY
: Oh for goodness sake! – white, then!
A
SSISTANT
: We haven’t got any white either.
J
ENNY
: Just give me three bags of crisps, then.
A

Susan’s got a Ferrari
Have you got a ten-pound note?
Notice that got doesn’t change, but that have changes to has for the
third person singular, and that we use
SHORT FORMS
of have in state-
ments, and
LONG FORMS
+ n’t in the negative:
I’ve I haven’t
you’ve you haven’t
he’s he hasn’t
she’s
got
she hasn’t
got
we’ve we haven’t
they’ve they haven’t
This meaning of got is different from the one Helen uses in Dialogue
2, when she says I got some apples. Compare these two sentences:
I got some apples = ‘I bought some apples’
(action of getting)
I’ve got some apples = ‘I have some apples’ (possession)
We’ve already seen that get/got has a number of different meanings
– and this is true of have as well. Jenny says:
I’ll have a glass of wine
Here she isn’t talking about possession, she’s using I’ll have to order
a drink or say what she wants. Similarly, if someone wants to buy
someone else a drink, they often say:
What’ll you have?

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Exercise 5
These sentences all use have got to talk about possession – change
them as indicated. The first two are done for you.
1 Dave’s got a new car. [?] Has Dave got a new car?
2 You haven’t got a phone. [?] Have you got a phone?
3 Has he got time? [+] _____________________
4 I haven’t got enough time. [+] _____________________
5 Have they got enough money? [–] _____________________
6 Su’s got a car. [–] _____________________
7 We haven’t got the tickets. [?] _____________________
8 Has Fiona got them? [+] _____________________

AVE
: No. I didn’t have a mineral water. My friend had one,
but I had another coffee.
W
AITER
: Ah . . . sorry about that. You were right, and I was
wrong.
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Language point 26 – ‘two coffees’
We saw in Language point 23 that words such as coffee are
UNCOUNTABLE
(UC), and that this means that they:
• can’t have plurals
• can’t be used with numbers
But in Dialogue 4 the waiter says:
Did you have two coffees
?
We also saw that UC nouns can’t be used with a/an, but Dave says:
I didn’t have a
mineral water
These examples seem to break the rules, but they don’t. Some
uncountable nouns can also be countable (C) in special cases:
• coffee (UC) = the drink itself
• coffee (C) = ‘a cup of coffee’ – cup is a
COUNTABLE
noun, so coffee
is countable when it means this, and it behaves like any other
countable noun:
a coffee
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Idiom
• We use sorry, of course, to apologise to someone. If we want to
refer back to the situation or incident we’re apologising for, we
say sorry about that.
Most dictionaries for learners of English will tell you when a noun
can be both UC and C. Some books and dictionaries call UC nouns
MASS NOUNS
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Language point 27 – ‘don’t think’
In Dialogue 4, Dave is unhappy with the bill. He thinks to himself:
The bill isn’t