Yes Honestly - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]

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Matthew and Lily ... make a charming young couple, despite their differences and their occasional inability to see eye-to-eye. And although they're very much in love, they seem to encounter more than their fair share of obstacles and inconveniences, including visits from Lily's eccentric Russian family and Matt's dreaded mother, and a persistent scarcity of funds - not helped when Matthew's disapproving family decide to cut him off without a shilling... [show more]

HUW- Emma Tracey. Well, it’s really nice to be here. And can I just say, Emma, whoever you are, I’m pleased to be here in my status as an iconic broadcaster. Thank you very much. Have got is used for acquisition. We can use it to say I’ve got blue eyes, because the idea that we acquired the colour, and the eyes, is charming, and kind of true, we have inherited them from our parents. The same is true for all kinds of instances where possession might seem, at first glance, to better suit the situation, and it may well be that Brits much overuse have got, and that have might often be more elegant. For WRITTEN purposes, ‘I have got a/some + noun’ looks plain wrong and clumsy, so I also prefer to write ‘I have…’ Have is used as a main verb for possession. It is also used as an auxiliary verb in the present perfect.

HUW- Oh honestly. That’s just one example. Orphaned kids in Syria another example. There are loads of examples we could give. There are people in Ukraine suffering really badly. Does that have an effect on you? Well, you’d be a pretty odd person, wouldn’t you to be honest, if you weren’t affected by it.

Not a chance in hell. I really, really just wanted to get past the first round and then anything after that, I didn’t mind. But then the closer I got to the final, it made me think – I need to get there now. I never believed I’d be able to win it, but I thought it would be amazing to make it to the final and then, it happened.

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If you don’t want to teach that the present perfect is also used to describe possession in this case because it confuses you or because you don’t think your students need to know that’s fine. Please don’t, however, say that English grammar strictly states that ‘have got’ is incorrect and rightly so when that is simply not the case. NIKKI- Just so you know, yeah. Very tall. My head comes to his waist. No, in a mobility scooter. But sometimes when I go to hug him I land on his waist. It’s hugely embarrassing, anyway. HUW- One of my colleagues said to me, just after I’d kind of spoken about it first of all, ‘Oh you’re very brave doing that, you’ve got to be a bit careful about these things because the BBC doesn’t want people thinking there’s some kind of nutter reading the Ten’. Liza Goddard and Donal Donnelly star in this sparkling sitcom which follows the romance and marriage of Matthew Browne, a struggling composer, and wife Lily. NIKKI- If you’re going through depression and/or anxiety you’re supposed to sleep, aren’t you, you’re supposed to switch everything off.

No, because I didn't know what the competition was going be like on day one. So, all I wanted to do was not be first out, that was my main thing. Then as the series went on, I suppose the camaraderie took over really. Of course you think ahead, but you don’t want to plan too far ahead because you don’t want to jinx yourself. By switching on and off each element you can create all possible verb forms: I work = present – so there is no past, no negative, no modal, no perfect, no progressive and no passive, all that remains is subject and verb in the present tense (although the full form still has an auxiliary which we will need to use for past and negative forms – I do work).It seems that some of you are of the opinion that have got (to mean have) is just “lazy” and/or “wrong”. Furthermore, it seems that no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince you otherwise. Seriously, please stop spreading misinformation. It’s your goddamn job to teach English as it IS spoken, not as you would have it spoken. English grammar did not come down on freaking stone tablets from heaven. It’s what’s embodied in the actual speech patterns of the people who use English, nothing more. (Side note: Different speech or writing communities have different practices, and there are practical social consequences to following different standards.) I work passive progressive perfect past negative modal = I wouldn’t have been being worked (yes, honestly, you really can do that and it’s still only one verb). NIKKI- It’s true, you do work like a machine. You’re not just turning up and reading other people’s words; you put in a full shift before you go on the Ten. You’re across everything. You have to be across everything; and it’s a sad world at the moment. You’ve spoken quite openly about having depression. We Americans once learned this throughout elementary, middle and junior high school. The declining of grammar usage is despicable and even pervades most of today’s authors. Grammar is the verbal (linguistic) mechanism which helps to preserve the habit of forethought. Lucia, to respond to your quandary, “ I’ve a car” is a possible, grammatically correct usage; however, it’s pragmatically hard to imagine. It’s foreseeable to be practical when many people need to sequentially state or affirm that they have something; however, communicating via writing, in itself, may preclude the above scenario and repeated use of I’ve an object. Reply NIKKI- Well, we did offer the Department of Health and Social Care to come on today. They declined but did provide us with this statement, ‘Following a robust review of the available data our clinical experts advised there is currently insufficient data on the duration of protection offered by Evusheld in relation to the Omicron variant. And in line with that advice the government will not be procuring doses at this time. We are keeping the evidence under close review, and NICE have begun their appraisal of Evusheld. If they consider the treatment to be clinically and cost effective it will be made available on the NHS in the usual way’.