Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Sparkle English,
where I teach you how to improve your level of English. In today's lesson, I'm going to teach
you the difference between have to and has to. In previous lessons, I talked about the verb have,
which we use when we are talking about possessions or belongings. For example, I have blonde hair.
But have to and has to are very different. We use have to and has to when we are talking about
obligations or things that are necessary to do. For example, I have to go to a meeting in an hour.
You have to take your pills every night before bed. My dad has to wake up at 5am to go to work.
She has to move out of her apartment by July. When we are conjugating the verb have,
we say I have to, you have to, he has to, she has to, it has to, we have to, and they have to.
In all of these examples, we are talking about obligations or things that are necessary to do.
In the affirmative form, have to or has to is very similar to the modal verb must, except
must is even stronger than have to. So you could say: I must go to a meeting in an hour. You must
take your pills every night before bed or have to. Must is more formal and is stronger than have to.
So what is the difference between have to, has to, and had to? Well had to is in the past tense. For
example, I had to leave my car overnight with the mechanic to get repaired. So imagine yesterday,
it was necessary, I had to get my car fixed and leave the car overnight at the mechanic's. And now
today, in the present tense, I could say I have to pick up my car this afternoon from the mechanic.
So have to in the present tense is talking about something that is necessary or an obligation
I have to do now in the present tense. And had to refers to the past: yesterday, last week, etc. Now
let's talk about have to or has to in the negative form. We use don't have to or doesn't have to, to
say that something is not necessary or is not an obligation. So it essentially is optional.
We conjugate this by saying: I don't have to. You don't have to. He doesn't have to. She
doesn't have to. It doesn't have to. We don't have to. They don't have to. For example,
you don't have to come to my party if you don't want to. This means it's not an obligation. If
you don't want to come to my party, it's not necessary that you come. You don't have to come.
We don't have to pay for the hotel room until we check out. So again, it's not necessary that
we pay for the hotel room until we check out. James doesn't have to do any homework tonight.
The children don't have to wear school uniforms on Friday. Now let's talk about have to
and has to in the interrogative form and how we make questions. We use do I have to
to ask if something is necessary or an obligation. You often hear children ask this question:
Do I have to? Is it necessary? So we say: do I have to? Do you have to?
Does he have to? Does she have to? Does it have to? Do we have to? Do they have to? For example.
Do we have to go to school tomorrow? Do I have to eat all my vegetables? Is it necessary?
Or am I obligated to eat all my vegetables? Does mom have to work late tonight? Okay, so now we're
going to do a six question practice quiz with have to or has to. So complete these sentences with the
correct form of have to in the present tense. Number one, I _____ study for my exam tomorrow.
And this one put in the affirmative form. Number two, Brittany _____ take antibiotics
for five days. Number three, you _____ come tomorrow if you don't feel like it. _____
we _____ arrive early? This one put in the interrogative form. Number five.
Mom _____ drive me there tomorrow. Number six. _____ Brandon _____ come to church on Sunday?
Okay, so now let's correct these together. Number one, I have to study for my exam tomorrow.
Now you cannot say I've to study. With have to, we do not use the contraction
"I've" -- that's incorrect. I have to study for my exam tomorrow. Number two, Brittany has to...
again, Brittany is a she, so we say she has, Brittany has to take antibiotics for five days.
Number three. You don't have to. You don't have to come tomorrow if you don't feel like it.
Number four, do we have to arrive early? Number five. Mom doesn't have to drive me there tomorrow.
And finally number six, does Brandon have to come to church on Sunday?
Okay, so let me know in the comments section how many you got correct out of six on this practice
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