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Originally Posted by Last Island View Post
Typos on my part. Yesterday I wrote Lease instead of leave and today too I have missed a few things. May be I am too much over burdened to handle everything easily.

Yes shrug off is the right option. I have missed "s" too in another option.

It is not grammatically incorrect.

It is perfectly idiomatic. It adds emphasis. In American English, “have got” is an intensive form of “have”. For example, if you say, “I’ve got a really big TV,” you are placing more emphasis on your possession of the TV than if you say, “you have a really big TV.” If you say you haven’t got any money, you’re stressing the fact that you’re broke. Note that you can use “has got” or “have got” only in the present tense.


In American speech, “the form without ‘got’ is used more than in the UK”, so in other words, Americans tend to say, “have” and the British tend to say, “have got.” For example, according to The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, in Britain, you’re more likely to hear the question “Have you got this book in stock?” whereas in America, “Do you have this book in stock?” would be more common.

“Have got” also has another meaning: to indicate necessity or obligation. Saying, “have got” is a little stronger than saying, “must”. So if I’m running late, I might tell my friend, “I have got to go now,” with the emphasis on the word “got.” And my friend might tell me, “You have got to stop being late so often.”

It isnt wrong but grammatically "belong to" is more preferred.
Thanks for elaborating buddy. So this means from CSS point of view we should focus on American English instead of British English?
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