Difference between Receive and Have

What is the difference between Receive and Have?

Receive as a verb is to get, to be given something while the other party is the active partner (opposite: to obtain). while Have as a verb is to possess, own, hold.

Receive

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to get, to be given something while the other party is the active partner (opposite: to obtain). to take possession of To act as a host for guests. To suffer from (an injury) To be in a position to take possition, or hit back the ball. # To be in a position to hit back a service. # To be in a position to catch a forward pass

Example sentence: If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

Have

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To possess, own, hold.To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.must.To give birth to.To engage in sexual intercourse with.(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command or request.(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)To defeat in a fight; take.To be able to speak a language.

We hope you now know whether to use Receive or Have in your sentence.

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