- “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 . . .
The odd thing to me about gonna, gotta, and wanna (and their close relative hafta, and their more distant relative gimme) isn't that these words have become mainstream in both spoken and informal written American English; it's that the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary series refuses to acknowledge their existence
- 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
- 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
- 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
- “kinda”, “sorta”, “coulda”, “shoulda”, “lotta”, “oughta”, “betcha . . .
Wikipedia Gonna, gotta and wanna are not contractions Contractions are shortenings like aren’t and can’t The missing letters have been replaced by an apostrophe, and the original words are discernible in the contraction Contractions are acceptable in all but the most formal writing Here are a few standard contractions: aren’t = are
- expressions - How to use get to and got to? - English Language . . .
In such spoken contexts, this got to is typically pronounced as gotta, and in writing it is often transcribed as such (see e g here) Thus, in spoken language, the two senses of got to are usually pronounced differently and so there is normally no confusion
- I get it vs. I got it - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"I got it" is ungrammatical, and while it may correspond to the pronunciation used by many native speakers, in truth what sounds like "I got it" is the contracted form of "I've got it " Just because people don't know that's what they're saying doesn't mean that's not what they're saying; it just means they're unreflective about their language usage and need to learn to defer to those of us who
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