Verb Have (Possession)

Verb Have ( Possession ). Present and Past.

[Virtual Presenter] Singular subjects use the form "has" while plural subjects use the form "have" for the present of Verb HAVE. For instance, "I have an exam today", "he or she has a camera now" and "we, you, and they have things to do today.

[Virtual Presenter] An example of the negative form of "have" is the contraction "don't have" or the full form "do not have". When talking about yourself, use the contraction or the full form. For someone else, the contraction "doesn't have" or the full form "does not have" should be used. If a group of people or a thing is the subject of the sentence, use either "don't have" or "do not have". For instance, "We have things to do today" becomes "We don't have things to do today.

[Audio] Using the verb 'have', interrogative sentences can be formed by using the auxiliary verbs 'do' and 'does', followed by the subject and the base form of the verb. Examples of such interrogative sentences are: 'You time to see me?', 'She time to see you?', 'She time?', 'I an exam today?', 'She a camera?', 'You things to do today?', and 'They something to do?'.

[Audio] Past form of have is "had," negative form "did not have," or "didn't have." For example, "I had an exam yesterday" and "I didn't have an exam yesterday," "He did not have a camera" and "She had a camera." Similarly, "It didn't have things to do," and "We did not have things to do." Also, "You had things to do yesterday" and "You didn't have things to do yesterday." Lastly, "They didn't have an exam yesterday" expresses the negative form of "have" in the past for the third person..

[Audio] Verb "have" is used to ask questions in interrogative form. For yes/no questions, it is used with a helping verb such as "did", "do", or "has". To ask a WH question, the verb is used with a WH word like "when", "where", or "how". An example of a yes/no question using "had" is "Did she have a meeting last week?". With WH questions, for instance, the statement "He had a meeting yesterday" could be asked as "When did he have a meeting?". Likewise, "Where did they have dinner?" could be asked from the sentence "They had dinner at home". Lastly, a WH question from the statement "She had two questions" is "How many questions did she have?.

[Audio] It is important to practice to write the correct forms of verbs. Let's look at these sentences to practice writing the verb have in its present and past forms with both its affirmative and negative forms. This man knowledge of astronomy. Students problems with complex software. Mary any courses for the moment. We parking lots in the neighborhood now. Tom any quizzes this week. Does she an office now? Why do they such problems now? She 2 appointments last week. Two years ago, we many foreign visitors here. John close friends in his childhood. We enough rest last trip. Did they big concerns in their last meeting? And when did she this problem before?Thank you for listening..