Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 36', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Aspect 467 Oh I got loads left conv And then something else I got here is peanut butter pie. conv In AmE conversation the present tense form of have is much more commonly used to express this meaning than has have got. This friend of mine has a vault in his house. AmE conv Santa Barbara has Republican tendencies. AmE conv In addition AmE makes a meaning distinction between has have got to refer to current possession and has have gotten meaning that something has been acquired or that a change of state has occurred And we still haven t gotten a damn pumpkin. AmE conv You know my daughter has gotten in trouble with this in school. AmE conv In BrE this perfect meaning is expressed by have got. She has got hold of some papers which seem to support her claim bie fict In contrast have had emphasizes the current relevance of some state that came into being in the past. This expression is especially common in conversation and news Well she s had a miserable life. coNwf I ve had enough of this conversation conv I have had a few years in which to practise cooking news The Chancellor who has had his troubles with the press took his chance to hit back with obvious glee yesterday news Present perfect aspect v. simple past tense Both the present perfect and the simple past tense are used to refer to an event or state in the past. In addition both can be used to refer to a state of affairs that existed for a period of time. The primary difference in meaning between the two is that the present perfect describes a situation that continues to exist up to the present time while the past tense describes a situation that no longer exists or an event that took place at a particular time in the past. This meaning difference is often made explicit by time adverbials accompanying the main verb see on adverbials of time . With the past tense these adverbials simply describe when the event or state occurred I saw him yesterday conv At that moment Toby knocked fict One day a .
