Grammar Level 1- Lesson Twenty Eight- Have To Questions
In this grammar lesson, you learn about the Have To questions in English and how to use them in your English conversation and writing. Just follow examples of have to questions and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.
Grammar Recap
In our previous lesson, we covered the Have To Grammar If you just landed on this page, we suggest that you complete our previous lesson including its quizzes before continuing on this lesson.
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Have To Questions- Present Tense
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Do I have to _____
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Do we have to ____
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Do you have to____
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Do you have to ____
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Does he have to ____
Does she have to ____
Does it have to ____
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Do they have to ____
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A: What do you have to do today?
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B: I have to go to work.
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A: What does she have to do today?
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B: She has to get some groceries.
It’s very important to notice that the only part of the question that changes is the helping verb when making a question. The main verb and “have to” remain in the simple form.
If you use “have to” when forming a past tense question, you only have to change the helping verb from “do” or “does” to “did.”
Have To Questions- Past Tense
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Did I have to _____
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Did we have to ____
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Did you have to____
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Did you have to ____
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Did he have to ____
Did she have to ____
Did it have to ____
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Did they have to ____
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A: What did you have to do yesterday?
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B: I had to drive to the airport.
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What did he have to do at school?
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He had to take a test.
Examples of Have To Questions
Question: What do you have to do today?
Answer: I have to practice my guitar.
Question: Does Katy have to go shopping today?
Answer: No, she doesn’t. She went shopping yesterday. That’s why she doesn’t have to go shopping today.
Question: What did Tom have to do today?
Answer: She had to take some pictures with her camera.
After that, she had to email the pictures to her friends.
(Notice that this is in the past tense.)
Have to Questions Grammar Exercises
Directions: Use “have to” and the verb in parentheses ( ____ ) to complete each question in the present tense or the past tense:
1. _______ you ________ ______ ______ home? (go)
2. _______ she ________ _______ _______ today? (work)
3. What time ________ they ________ _______ _______ at the party? (be)
4. _______ I _______ _______ ________ all of this laundry today? (do)
5. How long _______ he ________ _______ ________ at the hospital? (stay)
6 – 10 Past Tense:
6. _______ Martha _______ _______ ________ her mother yesterday? (help)
7. What time ________ they _______ _______ _______ to the airport? (get)
8. Why _________ this _________ ________ ________ so long? (take)
9. ________ you _______ _______ ________ to school during the summer? (go)
10. Why _________ Tom _________ _________ _________ to the police? (talk)
Quiz for Have To Questions
Now that you learned your new lesson, it is time to go to the Have To page and finish your quiz. While working on your quiz, you can always go back to its lesson to refresh your memory.
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