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Hello,

I want to learn some special cases from you.

-You have got to go away from here, haven't you?

-You have got some cute cats, haven't you?

Normally, when we say 'You have to go away from here', the answer will be 'don't you' if we don't put 'got' , is that right?
But if we put 'got', what will the answer be?
 
Hello,

I want to learn some special cases from you.

-You have got to go away from here, haven't you?

-You have got some cute cats, haven't you?

Normally, when we say 'You have to go away from here', the answer will be 'don't you' if we don't put 'got' , is that right? Yes
But if we put 'got', what will the answer be?

In AmE you will most often hear "don't you", and "You have" is usually contracted as, "You've".
 
Hello,

I want to learn some special cases from you.

-You have got to go away from here, haven't you?

-You have got some cute cats, haven't you?

Normally, when we say 'You have to go away from here', the answer will be 'don't you' if we don't put 'got' , is that right?
But if we put 'got', what will the answer be?
There are choices.
"You have to go, haven't you?" or "You have to go, don't you?"
"You've got to go, don't you?" or "You've got to go, haven't you?"
The choice would depend partly on where the stress lay in speech and other subjective factors.

As long as you don't try "gotn't you?" you're probably safe.
 
Does it comprise them too?

'You have got some cute cats, don't you?'
'You have some cute cats, haven't you?'
 
'You have got some cute cats, don't you?'
'You have some cute cats, haven't you?'
In BrE, the tags for both of these would be 'haven't you?', though some might use 'don't you?' for the second.
 
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