Learn DON'T HAVE and DOESN'T HAVE | Basic English Grammar Course

Hi, everybody.

In this video, we’re going to learn negatives with ‘have’ and ‘has’.

Now this also pretty easy.

You just have to remember everything that I wrote.

Okay.

So, let’s take a look at the board.

Okay, first, for ‘I’, we use, “I don’t have…”

Remember, ‘don’t’ is a contraction for ‘do not’.

“I don’t have…”

For ‘he, ‘she’ and ‘it’, we use ‘doesn’t have’.

‘Doesn’t’ is a contraction for ‘does not’.

“He doesn’t have…”

“She doesn’t have…”

“It doesn’t have…”

Now on the bottom.

For ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘they’, it’s the same as ‘I’.

We use ‘don’t have’.

“You don’t have…”

“We don’t have…” and “They don’t have…”

So, let’s look at these pictures.

Remember, we have a rabbit and a carrot.

So, we said, “It has a carrot.”

Okay, but, we’re doing negatives, so we have to say,

“It doesn’t have a cake.”

“It doesn’t have a cake.”

Okay.

Now here, we have the ants and an apple.

So, we said, “They have an apple.”

Okay.

But for this banana here, we have to say, “They don’t have a banana.”

“They don’t have a banana.”

Okay, let’s move on to some more practice.

Now let’s try this practice with the negatives ‘doesn’t have’ and ‘don’t have’ together.

Now this is a little easy because we know that the second word is have.

All you have to think is should we use ‘doesn’t’ or ‘don’t’.

Okay.

So, I’m just going to put ‘have’ her first.

Okay.

“She ‘blank’ have short hair.”

Should we use ‘don’t’ or ‘doesn’t’?

If you remember, for ‘she’, we use ‘doesn’t’.

“She doesn’t have short hair.”

Okay.

And again, I’m going to put ‘have’ first.

This is easy.

‘He’ and ‘she’ we both use ‘doesn’t’.

“He doesn’t have an umbrella.”

Okay.

How about for ‘I’?

“I doesn’t have….”

Or “I don’t have…”?

The correct answer is ‘don’t’.

“I don’t have a wife.”

“People…”

Remember, if we have more than one person, animal and thing, we have to think of ‘they’.

For ‘they’, do we use ‘don’t’ or ‘doesn’t’?

Do you remember?

The correct answer is ‘don’t’.

“People don’t have manners.”

Okay.

Next.

“We…”

“We ‘blank’ have money.”

Should we put ‘doesn’t’ or ‘don’t’?

The correct answer is ‘don’t’.

“We don’t have money.”

Okay, and the last one.

“A snake…”

A snake is an animal.

What do we use for an animal?

“It.”

“It…”

What should we put here?

“It…doesn’t…have legs.”

Okay, so that was our practice the negatives ‘don’t have’ and ‘doesn’t have’.

I hope you understand, and I’ll see you in the next video.

Bye.