Learn to ask English questions using HAVE | Basic English Grammar Course

Hi, everybody.

In this video, we’re going to learn how to ask questions using ‘have’.

Okay, let’s look at the board.

When we are talking about ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’,

the question always begins with ‘does’.

After the pronoun, we have ‘have’.

So, we say, “Does he have…”

“Does she have…”

“Does it have…”

Now, let’s practice with this question and let’s look at the two answers.

Okay.

“Does he have a friend?”

If the answer is ‘yes’, we say “yes”,

in the blank, we match… this has to be the same.

“Yes, he does.”

If the answer is ‘no’.

“No, he doesn’t.”

“Does he have a friend?”

“Yes, she does.”

“No, she doesn’t.”

“Does it have a friend?”

“Yes, it does.”

“No, it doesn’t.”

Okay, so remember ‘does…have’.

Now, when we use ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘they’, we use ‘do’ in the front.

And ‘have’ after.

“Do you have a friend?”

“Do we have a friend?”

“Do they have a friend?”

Okay.

And again, we have two answers.

We finish with ‘do’ or ‘don’t’.

So, “Do you have a friend?”

“Yes, I do.”

Right, the question is asking ‘you’, so, you say “I do.”

Or, “No, I don’t.”

“Do we have a friend?”

“Yes, we do.”

Or, “No, we don’t.”

And last.

“Do they have a friend?”

“Yes, they do.”

“No, they don’t.”

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

Alright, let’s try this practice together.

I know it looks hard, but I’m going to help you.

Okay.

So let’s look at the first practice.

It’s a question.

Okay, so remember when we ask a question, we begin with ‘do’ or ‘does’.

Okay.

We have ‘she’.

Well, remember for all questions we use ‘have’.

In the front, should we use ‘does’ or ‘do’?

The answer is ‘does’.

“Does she have a dress?”

When we answer, “Yes…”

What do we put here?

Remember, we put the pronoun ‘she’.

And the answer ‘does’.

“Yes, she does.”

The next one.

We have ‘they’.

Okay, ‘have’ is again the same.

“…have a bicycle?”

Okay, what goes in the front?

For ‘they’, we use ‘do’.

“Do they have a bicycle?”

This time the answer is negative.

“No, they….”

What do we put here?

It doesn’t make sense to say, “do”.

Right?

“No, they do.”

That’s wrong.

It’s a negative.

We have to say, “No, they don’t.”

“No, they do not.”

Okay, and again, we have ‘have’ over here.

“It…”

Which one, ‘do’ or ‘does’?

The answer is ‘does’.

“Does it have a ball?”

Again, the answer is negative.

“No, it…does not.”

or the contraction, “No, it doesn’t.”

Okay.

So that was our practice for asking questions with ‘have’.

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