The Boy Who Has Everything

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Verb Adjective Adverb Expression

Sherbek has got a big grey bag, and the class has a joke about it: Sherbek has everything.

He has got two pens and a short ruler. He has got scissors, glue and a plaster. He has got bread in a paper bag, and he even has got a phone charger.

"Have you got a pencil?" Dilnoza asks on Monday. He has.

"Do you have water?" the teacher asks on Tuesday. He does.

"Has he got a second bag at home?" Jasur asks. Nobody knows.

On Friday Sherbek hasn't got his bag. He has one pen in his pocket and nothing else.

Twenty pupils open their bags. Afsona has got a pen for him. Dilnoza has bread. Jasur has got a plaster for his hand, and today he doesn't have a joke.

"Now I have everything too," Sherbek says.

Vocabulary from this story

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joke

hazil

ruler

chizgʻich

scissors

qaychi

glue

yelim

plaster

plastir

charger

quvvatlagich

pocket

kissa

Grammar from this story

Key patterns that appeared in the text.

have got = have (both mean “bor”)

Maʼnosi bir xil — egalik. have got gapirishda, ayniqsa Britaniya inglizchasida koʻp uchraydi; have hamma joyda toʻgʻri va yozma tilda odatiyroq.

He has got two pens.
He has bread in a paper bag.

Two question forms, two negatives

have got savolda have ni oldinga chiqaradi: Have you got a pencil? have esa do/does talab qiladi: Do you have water? Inkor ham shunday: hasn't got / doesn't have.

Have you got a pencil?
Do you have water?
He hasn't got his bag.

he / she / it → has, has got

Uchinchi shaxs birlikda have → has: He has a bag, She has got a plaster. He have — xato.

Sherbek has got a big grey bag.
Jasur has got a plaster.

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1. What happens on Friday?

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3. Which sentence is wrong English?

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