Can I say "I have GOT 5 lessons every day" or it has to be "I have 5 lessons every day"? Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out with this question. A friend of mine was corrected today by someone - she was told that "got" should not be used in this sentence: "I have got 5 lessons every day." The various dictionaries provided me with an explanation like that: "We use have (got) to talk about possession, relationships, characteristics and illnesses." There are more examples of usage to that, but none of them fits exactly... For some inexplicable reason, "every day" seems a bit off in the said sentence - I've got a feeling that it'll be correct if I change "every day" to "a day": "I've got 5 lessons a day." Also, I think that it could be "I've got" in Present Perfect sense (if I can say that). But I'm not sure... Does the sentence "I have got 5 lessons every day" sound incorrect to you? Thank you!

Is the sentence "All these books are sat on my wish list ready and raring to go!" correct? I've come across a similar one in a video, it was a question: "Or is it [the book] sat on your wish list ready and raring to go?" I changed it this way: "All these books are sat on my wish list ready and raring to go!" Is it correct? I'm doubtful about the bit with "are sat", somehow it's alien for me - I couldn't find "sat" as an adjective in my dictionaries. Thank you!

What does "much dreaded by the poor" mean? (from Agatha Christie's novel) I was wondering if you could help me out with a question. It's probably some culture reference that is not particularly obvious for me. I stumbled upon this question when I was taking a quiz on Agatha Christie's mystery novel The Murder at the Vicarage the other day: "Miss Marple, in this novel, is frequently seen in the company of three other "old pussies". My favorite is this lady, whose ministries to the village poor are much dreaded." The lady's name, Miss Hartnell, was revealed afterwards, but I didn't get the explanation attached (because I'm not a religious person and never belonged to any type of congregation): "Anyone who has belonged to a small-town church of any denomination knows this type all too well." Can you please explain what did this lady have to do with the poor? There are two passages about Miss Hartnell and the poor from the book: 1. "Miss Hartnell, who is weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor" 2. "On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least ten minutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence and ungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to be that The Poor did not want Miss Hartnell in their houses. My sympathies were entirely on their side. I am debarred by my social standing from expressing my prejudices in the forceful manner they do. I soothed her as best I could and made my escape."

Could you tell me please if the words just/single in "in just a single year" are unnecessary? "One young woman, Rachel, 19, recently came to the firm after running up debts of £30,000 in just a single year." According to the keys in my textbook, there are unnecessary words in the said sentence: just or single, so it has to be "in just a year" or "in a single year". Turns out, the whole task was based on this article https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/25/shopping.paulharris. The authors of my textbook deliberately injected some unnecessary words in the article, like: "1: Company officials put ON a lot of the blame for the rise squarely at the door of the internet, [...]" And the task was to find those unnecessary words: "line 1: on", etc. Yet, for some reason, they deemed the original phrase "in just a single year" (it was like that in the said article) incorrect. I don't understand it; it sounds like an emphasis for me. Also, it looks like the phrase "in just a single" year/day/minute/step/etc is all over the internet (including numerous books). Thank you!

Does the meaning of the word "haggard" include "showing age"? I would be grateful if you could answer my question (I can't stop thinking about it). The other day I was solving a crossword made by my fellow classmate (online English course). For the word "haggard" I was given a clue: "show tiredness and age". Is it correct? Does the meaning of the word "haggard" include "showing age"? I looked it up in several dictionaries and couldn't find this one. Later I was told that this clue was taken from a textbook: "I've noticed Robert has put on weight; he's getting a double chin [fat around the chin]. His hair always looks so unkempt [untidy; scruffy]. I don't know why he doesn't look after it." [...] "He works incredibly hard; he often looks haggard [his face shows tiredness and age, with the skin hanging in folds] and exhausted." But I still have some reservations: the word "age" in those square brackets corresponds with the context, but could it be used as a general definition for the word "haggard"? Thank you!

Can you help me out with a tense? Does the phrase "I've been living here for 5 years" imply that I'm going to move somewhere else someday? It was told to my friend by her native speaker teacher. If I'm right he stated that in general Present Perfect Continuous tense infers some end of the mentioned process in future. Like, "I've been reading it for three weeks" = I've started to read it three weeks ago, I'm still reading, and I'm planning to finish it in future. Is that right? I've never heard anything like that. Thank you!

Is there a difference between "outskirts" and "edge of town"? Can you please help me out with a word choice? I live next to the border of a relatively big city (inside the border). That border only matters when it comes to delivery services: there are districts right beside it, but technically they're outside of town. Do I live on the outskirts of the city or do I live on the edge of town?