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<li>'ll have to get it done: | <li>'ll have to get it done: | ||
<br><span style="color:darkgreen;">lhæftəgetdʌn</span></li> | <br><span style="color:darkgreen;">lhæftəgetdʌn</span></li> | ||
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| + | <h2>Asking questions about obligations</h2> | ||
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| + | <i>have to</i> and <i>need to</i> both require <span color="color:darkred;">do-support</span> for questions in the present or the past: | ||
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| + | <ol> | ||
| + | <li>Do you need to lie down?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Do you have to work tomorrow?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Did you have to work yesterday?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Did you need to see a doctor?</li> | ||
| + | </ol> | ||
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| + | For questions in the future the auxiliary <i>will</i> or its negative form <i>won't</i> are used: | ||
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| + | <ol> | ||
| + | <li>Won't you need to buy insurance?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Will you need to take time off?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Won't you have to ask accounting?</li> | ||
| + | <li>Will you have to pay taxes this year?</li> | ||
</ol> | </ol> | ||
Revision as of 10:43, 9 April 2013
Contents
have to V / need to V
phonetics
The most basic tools used to express obligation, they form a phonetic unit with the following verb. In the most informal speech, one hears:
- They all need to see a doctor.
nidtə(ʊ)si: - We have to stop using so much petrol.
hæftəstɑp - I really have to go now.
hæftəgəʊ - She has to finish cooking the books.
hæstəfɪnɪʃ
- Have and has can not be phonetically reduced on the left side.
- have never becomes ə(v) as it does preceding a past participle.
- has never becomes z as it does in She's got time.
The reduction takes place around the pivot "to", as with the verbs going to V and want to V, where even the t disappears!
- I'm going to go. (sometimes written: I'm gonna' go.)
'ɡɔnəgoʊ - I want to be... (sometimes written: I wanna' be.)
'wɑnəbi
Exercise 1: Pronunciation
Practice pronouncing these verbal elements in a relaxed register:
- has to start:
hæstəstɑrt - had to stop:
hædtəstəstɑp - have to start dealing with:
hæftəstəstɑrtdi:lɪɳwɪθ - has to get done:
hæstəgetdʌn - 'll have to get it done:
lhæftəgetdʌn
Asking questions about obligations
have to and need to both require do-support for questions in the present or the past:
- Do you need to lie down?
- Do you have to work tomorrow?
- Did you have to work yesterday?
- Did you need to see a doctor?
For questions in the future the auxiliary will or its negative form won't are used:
- Won't you need to buy insurance?
- Will you need to take time off?
- Won't you have to ask accounting?
- Will you have to pay taxes this year?
Exercise 2: Find the mistakes
If there is a mistake in the sentence, correct it. If there is no mistake, leave it as it is...
- We'll have to work on this next week.
- We had work on this last week.
- Did you have to take time off from work?
- Have you to pay taxes?
- She has to get ready for a civil service exam (concours)
- He have to change the oil in the car this weekend. (change the oil = faire le vidange)
