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In today's lesson, I'm going to teach you about the verb have.
And I'm going to teach you the difference between have, has and had.
We use the verb have to talk about possessions, things that belong to us, relationships, illnesses
and more.
For example.
She has black hair.
She doesn't have red hair.
I'm going to teach you when we use have and when we use has.
When we use the verb have in the present tense, we have to conjugate it differently depending
on the subject.
We say, I have, you have, we have, they have.
However, with he, she, and it, we say he has, she has, it has.
We use the verb have to talk about possessions or things that belong to us: things we own.
For example, I have a red car.
He has a nice computer.
We also use the verb have to talk about family and relationships.
You have a handsome husband.
She has two children.
We also use the verb have to talk about illnesses.
They have a fever.
Jack has a bad cough.
And we use the verb have to talk about body parts.
Spiders have eight legs.
Jessica has long blonde hair.
Now for Jack and Jessica, we have to say has instead of have because Jack is a he, and
Jessica is a she.
So when do we use the word had?
And what's the difference?
Well, in the present tense, we use have or has.
But in the past tense we use had.
And we use had for all the different subjects.
I had.
You had, he had, she had.
So for example, this is Barb now and this is Barb as a little girl, Barb had brown hair.
She had a little dog in the past.
She had brown hair and a little dog.
But now Barb has short gray hair.
In the present tense.
She has short gray hair.
She has a kind husband.
So we use have or has in the present tense.
And we use had in the past tense.
Now let's talk about the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the verb have in
the affirmative form.
I have, you have.
In the negative form: I don't have.
And in the interrogative form.
Do I have?
Do you have?
In the affirmative form: He has, she has, it has, and in the negative form: he doesn't
have, she doesn't have.
We don't say "he doesn't has" because doesn't is already conjugated, and have stays the
same.
Does he have?
Does she have?
Does it have?
And in the affirmative form: we have, they have.
We don't have, they don't have.
Do we have?
Do they have?
So for example, here we have a picture of this family.
They have two children.
They don't have a cat.
The mom has brown hair.
Because the mom is she, she has brown hair.
She doesn't have blonde hair.
Do they have a dog?
Yes they do.
Okay, so now we're going to do a practice quiz with Have and Has.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of have in the present tense.
For this one, you will put it in the affirmative.
Some questions you have to put in the negative form or the interrogative form.
Number one.
I ____ a big TV.
Number two: she ____ many friends.
Number three: George ____ a pet snake.
Number four.
____ Dean ____a girlfriend?
Number five.
The baby ____ blue eyes.
Number six.
____ you ____ a sister?
Number seven.
They ____ a beautiful home.
Number eight.
You ____ a job.
Okay, so let's correct these together.
Number one.
I have a big TV.
Number two.
She doesn't have many friends.
Number three.
George has a pet snake.
Number four.
Does Dean have a girlfriend?
Dean is a he, so we say does he?
Does Dean have?
Number five.
The baby has blue eyes.
Number six.
Do you have a sister?
Number seven.
They have a beautiful home and finally number eight: you don't have a job.
Okay, so for this first part of the quiz, let me know how many you got correct out of
eight.
And now in the second part of this quiz, you have to complete the sentences with the correct
form of have in the present or past tense.
So number one.
When I was a child, I ____ a pet hamster.
Number two.
You ____ beautiful eyes.
Number three.
He ____ a new office.
Number four.
My mom ____ blonde hair when she was younger.
Finally, number five: we ____ a cottage on the lake many years ago.
So number one.
We're putting this in the past tense, so the answer is had.
When I was a child, I had a pet hamster.
Number two we have to put in the present tense, so you have beautiful eyes.
Number three: he has a new office.
Number four we have to put in the past tense.
My mom had blonde hair when she was younger.
And finally number five: we had a cottage on the lake many years ago.
Okay, so let me know how many you got correct out of five and for a total of out of 13 on
this quiz on have, has, and had.
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