Have Fiilinin Bütün Kullanılışları - Alıştırmalar
HAVE - POSSESSIVE
In British English, have meaning possess is not normally conjugatec with do except when there is an idea of habit.
/ haven't (got) a watch, (present possession)
How many corners has a (a characteristic rather than a habit cube?
He doesn 't usually have time (habit) to study.
In the past, did is used for habit; otherwise either form is possible:
Did you have/Had you an umbrella when you left the house?
In other English-speaking countries, however, the do forms are used almost exclusively. It would therefore be possible to use do/did forms throughout the following exercises (except in no. 27), but students are asked to use have not/have you forms where they could be used. Where both are equally usual this will be noted in the key.
Fill the spaces with the correct forms of have, adding got where possible. Only one space will be left in each clause, but note that got may be separated from have by another word. When a negative form is required '(negative)' will be placed at the end of the example.
1 He is standing there in the rain and . . . even the sense to put up his umbrella, (negative)
2 He . . . a cold in the head. ~
That's nothing new; he always . . . a cold.
3 I . . . brainwaves very often, but I . . . one now. (1st verb negative)
4 It is no good arguing with someone who . . . a bee in his bonnet.
5 Why don't you say something? You . . . an excuse? (negative)
6 You . . . this toothache yesterday?
7 How many letters . . . the alphabet?
8 The houses in your country . . . flat roofs?
9 You . . . the time? ( = Do you know the time?) -
No, I . . . a watch, (negative)
10 You ever . . . an impulse to smash something?
11 He . . . Ј1,000 a year when his father dies.
12 Air passengers usually . . . much luggage, (negative)
13 You . . . any objection to sitting with your back to the engine?
14 Oysters . . . always pearls in them. (negative)
15 Your door . . . a little hole through which you can peep at callers? (negative)
16 You . . . a match on you? ~
No, I don't smoke so I never . . . matches.
17 What is your opinion? ~
I . . . an opinion? (negative)
18 That cup . . . a crack in it.
19 You . . . any suspicion who did it?
20 This desk . . . a secret drawer? ~
No, modern desks ever . . . secret drawers. (negative)
21 When you go to a place for the first time, you ever . . . a feeling that you've been there
before?
22 Babies . . . teeth when they're born?
23 How many sides . . . a pentagon?
24 Our cat . . . kittens every year. ~
How many she . . . each time?
25 They say that if children . . . complete freedom when they are young, they . . . inhibitions when they grow up. (2nd verb negative)
26 You . . . mosquitoes in your country in summer?
27 You . . . children?~
Yes, I . . . two, a boy and a girl.
28 You . . . a motor cycle? ~
No, I only . . . an ordinary bicycle, but I . . . a motor cycle next year.
29 Why do you suddenly want to back out? You . . . cold feet?
30 Customer: You . . . any mushrooms today?
Shopkeeper: We usually . . . them but I'm afraid we . . . any at the moment.
(last verb negative)
31 I think I know the man you mean. He . . . one blue eye and one brown one? (negative)
32 Children nowadays . . . far too much pocket money. I . . . any when I was at school. (2nd verb negative)
33 We were always getting lost in the desert. ~
You . . . compasses? (negative)
34 Red-haired people always . . . bad tempers?
35 Do you think we should eat this meat? It . . . a very nice smell. (negative)
36 The stairs are on fire! You . . . a long rope?
In British English, have meaning possess is not normally conjugatec with do except when there is an idea of habit.
/ haven't (got) a watch, (present possession)
How many corners has a (a characteristic rather than a habit cube?
He doesn 't usually have time (habit) to study.
In the past, did is used for habit; otherwise either form is possible:
Did you have/Had you an umbrella when you left the house?
In other English-speaking countries, however, the do forms are used almost exclusively. It would therefore be possible to use do/did forms throughout the following exercises (except in no. 27), but students are asked to use have not/have you forms where they could be used. Where both are equally usual this will be noted in the key.
Fill the spaces with the correct forms of have, adding got where possible. Only one space will be left in each clause, but note that got may be separated from have by another word. When a negative form is required '(negative)' will be placed at the end of the example.
1 He is standing there in the rain and . . . even the sense to put up his umbrella, (negative)
2 He . . . a cold in the head. ~
That's nothing new; he always . . . a cold.
3 I . . . brainwaves very often, but I . . . one now. (1st verb negative)
4 It is no good arguing with someone who . . . a bee in his bonnet.
5 Why don't you say something? You . . . an excuse? (negative)
6 You . . . this toothache yesterday?
7 How many letters . . . the alphabet?
8 The houses in your country . . . flat roofs?
9 You . . . the time? ( = Do you know the time?) -
No, I . . . a watch, (negative)
10 You ever . . . an impulse to smash something?
11 He . . . Ј1,000 a year when his father dies.
12 Air passengers usually . . . much luggage, (negative)
13 You . . . any objection to sitting with your back to the engine?
14 Oysters . . . always pearls in them. (negative)
15 Your door . . . a little hole through which you can peep at callers? (negative)
16 You . . . a match on you? ~
No, I don't smoke so I never . . . matches.
17 What is your opinion? ~
I . . . an opinion? (negative)
18 That cup . . . a crack in it.
19 You . . . any suspicion who did it?
20 This desk . . . a secret drawer? ~
No, modern desks ever . . . secret drawers. (negative)
21 When you go to a place for the first time, you ever . . . a feeling that you've been there
before?
22 Babies . . . teeth when they're born?
23 How many sides . . . a pentagon?
24 Our cat . . . kittens every year. ~
How many she . . . each time?
25 They say that if children . . . complete freedom when they are young, they . . . inhibitions when they grow up. (2nd verb negative)
26 You . . . mosquitoes in your country in summer?
27 You . . . children?~
Yes, I . . . two, a boy and a girl.
28 You . . . a motor cycle? ~
No, I only . . . an ordinary bicycle, but I . . . a motor cycle next year.
29 Why do you suddenly want to back out? You . . . cold feet?
30 Customer: You . . . any mushrooms today?
Shopkeeper: We usually . . . them but I'm afraid we . . . any at the moment.
(last verb negative)
31 I think I know the man you mean. He . . . one blue eye and one brown one? (negative)
32 Children nowadays . . . far too much pocket money. I . . . any when I was at school. (2nd verb negative)
33 We were always getting lost in the desert. ~
You . . . compasses? (negative)
34 Red-haired people always . . . bad tempers?
35 Do you think we should eat this meat? It . . . a very nice smell. (negative)
36 The stairs are on fire! You . . . a long rope?
