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It is written as "We've got", but if it represents a present perfect tense, shouldn't it be "We've gotten"?

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Rebecca

Although this sentence should say "we have" instead of "we've got" to be grammatically correct, adding "got" is a common slang word added to sentences. The tense of this sentence does not need to change, it is correctly said in present tense.

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