Re: Noun tense

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> >         [Present Perfect]
> >         /ajv/
>
> In my own pronunciation, I often drop the [v] entirely:
> "I gotta go".
In *all* forms with -'ve?  I say "I got", but not *"I gone".  "Got" is
the only verb that allows the "have" form to be dropped, presumably
because it's no longer thought of as a perfect tense, but as another way
of saying "have" in the present tense.

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