{"id":72314,"date":"2019-09-20T05:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72314"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:25:57","slug":"have-vs-having","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/have-vs-having\/","title":{"rendered":"Have vs. Having"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having <\/b>is the present participle form of have<\/b>. We do not normally use having<\/b> to express ideas such as possession. When have<\/b> means own<\/b>, it is always used in the base form. Having<\/b> is not possible in this case.<\/p>\n
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  • I have<\/b> a car. (BUT NOT I am having a car.)<\/li>\n
  • He has<\/b> a daughter. (BUT NOT He is having a daughter.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Have<\/b> is also used to talk about medical conditions that we experience.<\/p>\n

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    • I have <\/b>a cold \/ a headache \/ a sore throat. (NOT I am having a cold \/ a headache.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      However, the form having can be used to talk about certain medical conditions that last for only a few seconds or minutes. For example, we can say:<\/p>\n

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      • I am having<\/b> a heart attack.<\/li>\n
      • He thought that he was having<\/b> a stroke.<\/li>\n
      • He was having<\/b> an epileptic fit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        When we talk about eating, the continuous form having<\/b> is possible.<\/p>\n

        They were having <\/b>dinner when I arrived. (Here we are talking about an activity that was in progress when another action occurred.)<\/p>\n

        Compare:<\/p>\n

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        • I have <\/b>breakfast at 8 am. (Routine)<\/li>\n
        • I am having<\/b> breakfast. (An activity that is going on at the moment of speaking)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Having is the present participle form of have. We do not normally use having to express ideas such as possession. When have means own, it is always used in the base form. Having is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1521,1526,1524,1525],"class_list":["post-72314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-have","tag-have-or-having","tag-have-vs-having","tag-having"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72315,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72314\/revisions\/72315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}