Como usar Have e Has.

Aqui estão alguns pontos a serem lembrados ao usar ‘have’ e ‘has’.

Vamos começar com o básico. Ambos podem ser usados para mostrar posse e são importantes para fazer os ‘tempos perfeitos’. ‘Had’ é o pretérito de ‘has’ e ‘have’.

Have e has são formas diferentes do verbo to have. Mesmo que eles venham da mesma palavra, existem pequenas diferenças na maneira como são usados.

Embora o verbo have tenha muitos significados diferentes, seu significado principal é “possuir, possuir, manter para uso ou conter”. Have e has indica posse no tempo presente (descrevendo eventos que estão acontecendo atualmente).

Have é usado com os pronomes eu, você, nós e eles, enquanto has é usado com ele, ela e isso.

have

Have é usado com alguns pronomes e substantivos no plural:
‘I have a great English teacher.’
‘You have toothpaste on your chin.’
‘We have a meeting at 12.’
‘Nurses have a difficult job.’

has

Has é usado com a terceira pessoa do singular.
Por exemplo:
‘She has a great personality.’
‘He has a new haircut.’
‘The washing machine has a leak in it’.
‘It has a hole near the door.’

contractions

I have = I’ve
you have = you’ve
we have = we’ve
they have = They’ve
he has = he’s
it has = it’s

negative contractions

has not = hasn’t
have not = haven’t
had not = hadn’t

‘have’ and ‘has’ in questions

‘Have you been to Australia?’
‘Has Andrew left yet?’
‘Who has my pen?’
‘Has anyone seen my mobile phone?’

‘have got’ and ‘have’

‘have got’ e ‘have’ significam a mesma coisa. Não há diferença.

‘I have got an i-phone.’ = ‘I have an i-phone’.
‘You have got a message.’ = You have a message.’
‘She has got no time to sleep.’ =’She has no time to sleep.’

‘have’ and ‘has’ verb tenses

‘have e has’ é um verbo importante para tornar o’ tempo perfeito.

Present Perfect
‘She has lived here for a long time.’
‘We have seen this TV show before.’
‘I have cut my finger.’

Past Perfect
‘I had already decided not to go before he asked me.’
‘They had finished the race before it started raining.’
‘She had already left when he arrived’

modal verbs: ‘have to’

‘have to’ é usado para significar que algo é necessário. É usado da seguinte forma em frases afirmativas:
subject + modal (have to / has to) + verb
‘I have to wash my car today.’
‘He has to write a report.’
‘I had to go to the bank yesterday.’

‘have to’ in negative sentences

Para mostrar que algo não é necessário, seguimos esta regra:
subject + doesn’t have to + verb
‘We don’t have to work tomorrow.’
‘She doesn’t have to wear a uniform to school’
‘I didn’t have to make my bed when I was young’

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