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Having here or Have here Hello guys, I am now staying in Melbourne and everytime when I go to a food ordering counter, the staff will ask me about whether the food is for here or to go, sometime I heard "Having here or takeaway?" And sometime I heard "Have here or takeaway?"

Which one is grammatically correct ?

Also, what is the correct way to answer this type if questions?

1. "Have here please"

2. "Having here please"

4 janv. 2019 06:53
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Either way would work, with very little difference in meaning. (“Have” is probably an action verb in this context, meaning to consume the meal.) That being said, we need a direct object, in this case, “it”. You probably didn’t hear “it” because the vowel is reduced to a schwa, and in Australia, the T was probably reduced to a glottal stop (pronounced in the throat). Note that the whole sentence requires a subject (like “you”) and an auxiliary verb, though these are often omitted in speech: “Will you have it here or to go?”, “Are you having it here or to go? or “Will you be having it here or to go?”
4 janvier 2019
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I had to laugh a little when I read this question because this is one of those things in the English language that differs from place to place. I was a little confused the first time somebody asked me about "takeaway". They say "takeaway" in Australia and New Zealand and probably in the UK. We say "take-out" or "to go" in the USA and probably most places in Canada. The opposite is "eat in", "dine-in", or just "for here". I think that "for here" will work in Australia but you should wait for an answer from somebody who lives there to be sure.
4 janvier 2019
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Both are fine. 'Having' is using a continuous tense, so indicates something that takes a longer time. As having a meal takes a little time, then it fits both the longer, continuous tense, and the shorter 'standard' future tense.
4 janvier 2019
You can say “have” if they say “have”. Otherwise, you can say “having” if they say “having”. I live in Sydney, and the standard here is also “having/have here or takeaway?”. Sometimes, they do just say “having/have here?” without the takeaway option, which is actually common too. Has this ever happened to you in Melbourne? In occasional cases they sometimes say “takeaway or having/here?” or just “takeaway” by itself.
4 juin 2024
Neither of them are grammatically correct - that's what happens when you're in a casual speaking environment. But "having" is better because it sounds like shorthand for "are you having it here?" You can respond with "here, please".
4 janvier 2019
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