a lot of us get tripped up by words that
sound very similar but they mean
different things and one example of that
is the word have and the word of you
might hear someone say I should have
drank more coffee this morning they're
saying the word of but they mean to say
the word have let me explain to you the
difference essentially have is a verb it
expresses an action of is a preposition
it expresses a location of one word in
relation to another word in a sentence
so here's an example of how you would
use each of them in a sentence in the
correct way so for instance let's look
at the sentence I should have drank more
coffee in this case we use the word have
because we need a verb to indicate that
we should have drank more coffee
although sometimes people use the
contraction and that's okay too as long
as you write it the correct way if you
want to use the contraction for should
have you right I should have drank more
coffee now you can hear that should have
sounds a lot like should of which is why
oftentimes people write the incorrect
word and the correct way to use the word
of in a sentence is I ordered a cup of
coffee
in this case we need a preposition and
of is truly the correct word so I hope
that this clears up the difference
between have and of and why our ears can
make it a little bit tricky
you