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"have to" 2025 Nov 1    englishclub.com
My latest obnoxious pondering into the English language concerns the short phrase have to, a version of must with a little bit more impersonality to it. But nuance between have to, must, mustn't, and can't aside (which the linked content delves thoroughly through) what I find particularly fascinating is that it's the unique combination of words have to that together make a new meaning Beyond fat of the phtase's individual words, with the whole expression adding up to more than the sum of its parts. I'm sure there's many other English phrases with similar stories, but I don't know the name of the phenomenon to search it out.
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