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Use this tag if you are asking about the usage of Auxiliary/Helping Verbs. Auxiliary/Helping Verbs are verbs that are used with other full verbs to make the different tenses, voice or modality in a sentence.
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Can "'ve" be used as a contraction of "have" when "have" is acting as a verb and not as an a...
Definitely yes. Although such usage sounds strange to American ears, it is used in British English. For example, from a headline yesterday in the Guardian:
"I’ve a house full of stuff I no longer …
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