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- “I gotta go” or “Ive gotta go” - English Language Usage . . .
While watching American TV series, I sometimes see a sentence, "I’ve gotta go," but sometimes an actor says “I gotta go” instead Is there any difference between those things?
- formality - How often do people say gotta, wanna or gonna in . . .
Gotta is used in written English to represent the words 'got to' when they are pronounced > informally, with the meaning 'have to' or 'must' Prices are high and our kids gotta eat
- expressions - meaning and use of gotta - English Language Usage . . .
I often heard people say the word "gotta" I have read in this web site that gotta is a contraction of "I have got to" and that that phrase means "must", is my understanding correct? Regarding the
- When quoting someone, is it proper to change gotta to got to . . .
If "gotta" is equivalent to "got to," and "gonna" is equivalent to "going to," adjusting the spelling is allowed, but further alteration for grammar ("have got to" instead of "got to") isn't Meanwhile, if gotta is important to capture the "tone or sense of place," use it unchanged
- Wondering if the use of the word gotta is correct here
You gotta is entirely "correct" in US colloquial registers, and the spelling is a "standard" symbolization of colloquial speech
- pronouns - What is the difference between Us girls gotta stick . . .
The phrase "gotta stick together" is a colloquialism and it is something of a register clash to hear it yoked with the "correct" "We girls" Compare: "It's me" vs "It is I" Here's a bit of dialog from a 1922 novel entitled The Secret Toll by Paul and Mabel Thorne, in a chapter called "Friends of the Poor": "I'll tell you, Mister," said Green
- You gotta do what you gotta do and similar expressions
You gotta do what you gotta do It's there because it's there Stuff, because stuff Does this pattern of expression have a name? Existential assertion, maybe?
- Aint and gotta - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
gotta translates as: have got to or have to, the two ways to say have in English and where to have to or have got to means be obliged to do something ain't gotta: do not have to [verb] or have not got to [verb]
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