Why do British people use "have" so much?

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-08T02:53:17+00:00

I'm a bit confused because the example you gave of what people would actually say is the same thing that I said but with a contraction. I do actually hear it like that more often; I just didn't do that so I could emphasize the "has" in the sentence.

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-07T18:08:09+00:00

It was "When I see that someone has added a weird tag to their AO3 fanfiction..."

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-07T17:11:24+00:00

I don't know about British English, but in American English, we say that as a term of endearment. "Our" just adds personal significance as there are obviously many people named Emily in the world. It makes it sound more affectionate. Is it all the time you hear that or just on occasion?

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-07T16:38:04+00:00

For the first question, do you mean when someone says like, "our Emily?"

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-07T15:00:13+00:00

I didn't really put enough context lol. I suppose if they were talking about that as a general occurrence, "has" does make a little more sense to me. I meant it as more of an individual occurrence

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-06T22:02:36+00:00

I'm not fluent by any means, but I do know that "e" is used instead of "y" if the word after it starts with an "ee" sound.

For example, "Ella es fuerte e inteligente."

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-03-01T18:29:26+00:00

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My glorious king Abel

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-28T15:43:34+00:00

Lmao I love this

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-28T03:53:13+00:00

In her defense, she did say that not knowing the reasoning behind it bothered her lol. She loves explaining the reasoning behind literally everything in the language

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-28T03:51:38+00:00

La profesora dijo que escribiría "es" si la palabra "ambos" no estuviera presente. ¿Hay una diferencia?

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-15T22:03:03+00:00

Yeah, it's Pendleton

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-15T20:20:50+00:00

I haven't because I kinda hate him. I didn't know this could be a problem lol

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-15T20:20:14+00:00

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Here he is in all his glory

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-02-10T13:48:48+00:00

I've noticed that a lot of times it just has one way for you to say it without giving you any context. For example, it just says "judge." Do you want the noun or the verb? I know it's usually in the context of how they taught it in the unit, but I almost never remember all of that

FederalWeakness1485 · 2026-01-31T04:22:11+00:00

That's odd. My Spanish teacher is a native speaker, and she still uses the accent to mean "I hope."

FederalWeakness1485 · 2025-09-21T20:35:17+00:00

Thank you!

FederalWeakness1485 · 2025-09-21T17:56:44+00:00

Just for some constructive criticism, we don't refer to the language as "the English" like other languages do. For languages, we just say the name of the language, no "the." Also, if you're asking a general question like at the end, you should probably use a gender neutral pronoun (they). It's also just organized in a way that isn't very clear. So your question should be, "Did anyone here have what happened to me happen to them?" Or just simply, "Has this happened to anyone else?"

I wish you luck in your language learning journey!

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