- “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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
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