English Expressions with 'HAVE'

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Yes, I did the laundry.
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Yes, I had breakfast today.
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Okay, I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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Yeah, love you too. Okay, bye.
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That was my mom, sorry.
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Oh, hey. How's it going?
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I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "Expressions with 'Have'".
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So, "have" is one of the most common
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verbs in the English language, and I know most of you know, you know, that you can use
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it for possession, but there are also a ton of other things and a ton of other expressions
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that we use with this verb. So, today, I will look at some of these expressions.
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First, let's say: "He has", "He had", "He will have", we have the present, the past,
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the future; "I have", "I will have", "I had". And, like I said, possession, here:
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"He has a car", "He had a PS4",
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"He has a son", or "He will have a son",
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if his wife or his girlfriend is pregnant, for example.
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So, here we have possession, something that belongs to you
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or is yours. Or if you have a family member, like:
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"I have two sisters, three brothers", etc.
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This is similar in most languages.
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Next: "I have a headache", or "I have a backache",
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or... I'm not going to say this, so I'll say:
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"He has cancer". So, if you are talking about a pain, or an illness, or a disease, you can
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also use the verb "have", so: "I have a headache", "I have a backache", "I have an earache",
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and a wide variety of pains that you have, you know, on your body.
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And here are some other ones that... You know, common expressions we have. You can say:
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"Teacher, teacher, I have a question."
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So, you can have a question. The teacher will, hopefully, have an answer.
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"I have an idea." You can have a question, you can have an idea.
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"I have something to say." You can have something to say.
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So, all of these, what you'll notice is they are all in a simple tense, and they can also
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be used in the perfect tenses, but there are some expressions that you can use in the simple
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tenses, and you can use in the perfect tenses, but you can also use them in the continuous
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tenses. So, for example, possessives, most of you probably know you cannot say:
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"I am having a car." You can only say: "I have a car." That's it. All right.
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Next, let's look at some where you can use the continuous tenses;
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past continuous, present continuous, future continuous, or the simple or perfect tenses.
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So, you can say: "I have"
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or "I am having breakfast", "lunch", or "dinner".
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So, when you are talking about meals that
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you eat during times of the day, use "have", and you can say: "I'm having lunch now.",
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"I'm having breakfast now.",
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"I'm going to have dinner with my mom."
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I'm going to have dinner with my mom later. It's true. All right.
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You can use this for drinks, like: "I have coffee every morning." Okay? Or:
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-"Hey, what are you drinking?" -"I'm having juice."
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Or: -"What would you like?" -"Mm, I will have water." Okay?
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Or beer, like: "I'm having a beer." You can have a beer; drink a beer.
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And next, food, in general. "A sandwich", "pizza", "a bowl of cereal", anything you
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can eat, you can say: "I'm having pizza for lunch today.", or "I had pizza for lunch.",
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or "I'm going to have a sandwich later." Okay? So, meals, drinks, food - all can use the
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verb "have". And I know some of this is repetition from my eating vocabulary video,
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so you can check that out, too, for more information like this.
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All right, next, some other common things, common expressions with the verb "have".
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You can say: "I have a problem." or "I'm having a problem."
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So, imagine that, you know, I record, I make videos, this thing isn't working.
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I'm having a problem with my video camera.
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And you can "have a great time" doing something, like:
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"Oh, I'm having a great time making this movie that we're doing today." So, let me put this away.
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A little noise in the background for you guys, makes it more real. And you can say:
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"I'm having a great time" if you are at a party, for example.
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If you are taking a course and people ask you:
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"How are you doing? Are you enjoying it?" You can say:
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"It's really difficult. I'm having a hard time understanding my teacher.",
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or "I'm having a hard time remembering the information or the material."
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So, hopefully, you're having a great time watching this video.
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And, next, you can "have a good day" or "have a bad day".
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And again, you can use the continuous tenses to talk about this.
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-"How is your day going?" -"I am having an amazing day!
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How is your day going?" -"I'm having a terrible day.", "I'm having a great day."
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Why am I doing fake, you know, telephones when I have a real phone? "I am having a great day." Right?
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You could do that.
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So, you can also "have a bath" or "have a shower". I put a star, there. Why?
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What is another verb that we can commonly use with baths and showers?
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"Take", that's right.
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You can "take a bath", "take a shower", or "have a bath", "have a shower". So you can say:
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"I'm having a shower" if someone's knocking on your bathroom door.
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And to finish up, you can "have a conversation".
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So: "I was having a conversation with my mom on the phone at the start of this video."
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Now, some other ways that you can say:
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"I am having a conversation" is: "I'm having a chat", "I'm having a talk",
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"I'm having a word with my mom", okay?
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So, you can say: "Yeah, I'm going to have a chat with her",
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"I'm going to have a talk with her", "I'm going to have a word",
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or if your boss ever tells you: -"I need to have a word with you."
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-"Oh no, my boss needs to have a word with me." That's a scary situation.
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So, you can also use "about", right? You can "have a conversation about" something,
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"have a chat" about something, or "have a word" or "a talk" about something.
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And finally, you can "have a look at something" or "have a look at someone".
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So, let's see, what can I get, here? There's, like, all these magical things off screen.
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I don't know what I want to show you. Let's use this.
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Have a look at this. Isn't this cool? I love it.
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It's a car, has four wheels like all cars do, and it's made of wood. Have a look at that.
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All right? So, if you want someone to take a look or look at something, you can
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say: "Here, have a look." Or if you're surfing online and you're looking for, you know:
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What expressions can I use with the word "have" in English? You can say: "Here, have a look at this video."
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All right, guys. If you want to test your understanding of this material, as always,
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you can check out the quiz on www.engvid.com. And, if you like the video, as always,
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