How to Use Have to to Express Responsibilities in English
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in this week’s lesson
we are going to talk about how to use
have to
to express responsibilities in this
lesson
i’m going to talk about making positive
statements with have to
negative statements with don’t have to
and finally we’re going to talk about
making questions to ask about and
confirm
responsibilities so i hope today’s
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uh positive statements first uh how to
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have to for a positive statement then we
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with positive statements positive
statements
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talk about
positive statements with have to
and today’s lesson is about have to i’m
focusing on have to
uh but you can use need to
need to in the same way okay i’m not
going to focus on that point
but you can do that so let’s begin
positive statements when do we use
have to we use have to to express
a responsibility something you must
do we don’t use must and have to
interchangeably must in everyday speech
sounds a little too polite or a little
too formal
so usually in everyday conversation
we use have to to talk about our
everyday activities
our everyday responsibilities okay
then if you do not do the action
there will be a problem this is the
feeling with have to
so if you say i have to do something
it sounds like if you do not do that
thing
there will be some problem in the future
okay so here’s our basic pattern
for today’s lesson we have our subject
i you we he she they and so on it
plus have to and then the base
form of our verb or the infinitive form
the basic form there
okay this is the basic form oh menelik
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okay so depending on your subject if
your subject is i
you we they we follow this pattern i
have to
you have to we have to and so on if your
subject
is he or she or it you use has to he has
to or she has to
and so on all right so let’s look at
some
example sentences that use this grammar
you those of you watching out there you
can comment
and use this basic pattern
to express one of your responsibilities
this week express a responsibility this
week
okay so let’s look at some examples now
for example
i have to go to work i have to
go to work we tend to reduce
these sounds in speech so a
pronunciation point
when i’m speaking just like everyday
speech
i don’t say i have to go to work
it comes out as i have to go to work i
have to go to work
so this and these become
very soft i have to i have to i have to
go to work
okay so i have to go to work or i have
to go to school very common
responsibilities
yeah okay another one
he has to come to
the meeting he has to come to the
meeting
so again this part becomes a little
softer
in speech not he has to come but he has
to come
he has to come so these two sounds
kind of come together they reduce
together he has to come
to the meeting okay all right
uh dmvo on facebook says i have to learn
this lesson
or i have to learn this grammar yeah
nice
okay next one is we have to
organize a party we have to organize a
party
great so in this case uh we have the
same
have to here but our subject is we we
have to organize a party and finally
down here
you have to see that movie you have to
see that movie i included this one this
example sentence here you have to see
that movie
because this uh yes it uses
the have to grammar point but we use
this
with this you subject like you have to
blah blah do some
activity in this case see a movie this
is
friendly but strong advice we use have
to
in this way to express advice like
strong recommendations
we can use hot do to do that okay
cesar reyes albuquerque says i have to
eat fried potatoes really
it’s your responsibility that’s your
responsibility
so a good point is generally we
use this to talk about our
responsibilities
so like uh to like to take care of
ourselves or to take care of
work or our studies and so on if you
want to be a little bit
funny you can use have to like in your
example like i have to eat like french
fries and
you can use it to make kind of uh jokey
sentences great lots of examples are
coming in esther
destiny hi on facebook says i have to go
to the gym
great great very nice one um
rodrigo says yeah we have to stay at
home yeah
many countries right now have to stay at
home great example sentence
okay uh roton roy says i have to play
cricket
very nice very nice okay on youtube uh
victor vidal says we have to practice
conversation a lot
great yes i hope so um michelle says i
have to watch the live streaming class
uh
of english with alicia nice yeah so i
have more maybe more naturally i have to
watch alicia’s
live streamed class i would say that
probably
okay um oh byron wrote uh you gotta
visit nicaragua
yeah so you can use you’ve you’ve got to
or you gotta yeah in a similar way to
express
strong advice great tons of great
examples that this is
many people are writing i have to study
for my english exam tomorrow like
jermaine on youtube
very nice very nice i have to start
eating every day okay
well sushi says i have to drink hot
chocolate every hour
it’s a very interesting responsibility
okay
all right i think everybody is doing a
great job with this grammar point very
very nice
very nice okay so positive statements
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is about
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we talked about positive statements at
the beginning
now we are going to talk about negative
statements
as i said this is the point i see lots
of learners make mistakes with with this
grammar point so
let’s go let’s take a look okay
negative statements negative statements
what is the deal
negative statements okay so negative
statements with
have to we use don’t have to
or doesn’t have to to create the
negative
form of this grammar i don’t have to do
something
he doesn’t have to do something so we
use don’t have to
to express something you do not
have a responsibility to do so no
responsibility
okay but right here this key point
this is the part that i see learners
make mistakes with
we use don’t have to to
uh express an action that is a
reasonable
expectation a reasonable expectation
so that means something we can expect
you are responsible for so here’s a
here’s a good example
this sentence is grammatically correct
but it doesn’t make much sense
with this grammar point this is i don’t
have to drink alcohol at work i don’t
have to drink alcohol at work
okay but the reason this sentence sounds
really strange
is because for most people we don’t
drink alcohol at work it’s not a
reasonable
expectation it’s not a reasonable
responsibility
right so this sentence sounds a little
strange
we use this grammar point to talk about
things that are
reasonable in our everyday lives or in
our everyday situation
okay so please try to remember this
point
when you make your example sentences
today
okay so uh you can
okay i talked about this then last point
here you can use this to describe an
action you can do
later so this means i don’t have to do
something now
i’m going to do it later i’ll show you
another example sentence
in a minute okay so here is the basic
pattern
for the negative statement we have again
our subject
and then don’t or doesn’t
plus have to and our base verb our
infinitive verb here
okay so subject meaning i don’t or you
don’t we don’t and so on and with
doesn’t
he doesn’t she doesn’t it doesn’t
these are the reduced forms do not and
does not
we use don’t and doesn’t typically in
everyday speech
okay oh no horror wrote you don’t have
to apologize
very nice example okay all right
uh cesaro said we don’t have to go to
work on sundays
very nice very nice okay so some of you
are already doing
making this error so a reasonable
expectation when you make a sentence
with this
make a sentence about something we can
reasonably
expect so do we expect that you have to
eat cookies
every sunday most people probably know
i think so try to think about an
expectation
typical expectation okay so
if you are watching live or you want to
practice later here is your comment
your chat comment homework express
something you do not
have a responsibility to do this week
or you do not have a responsibility to
do
okay uh leo hernandez on facebook wrote
i don’t have to arrive
late to work okay your sentence is
grammatically correct
but because you use this grammar point
it sounds like
they expect you to arrive late at work
which is not true
right so that sentence i would write
i shouldn’t arrive late to work remember
expectation and responsibility is the
key here
let’s look at some examples i don’t have
to go to work
or i don’t have to go to work today this
sentence sounds natural
because it’s a weekday there’s an
expectation we we expect i have a
responsibility
to go to work right or school okay
i don’t have to go to work so i have no
responsibility
to go to work okay another one
we don’t have to organize a party we
don’t have to organize a party
so maybe we could use this sentence
in a situation where there’s an office
birthday
maybe and someone says we don’t have to
organize a party
that person is taking a holiday we don’t
have to
organize a party so we don’t have any
responsibility here
okay then i don’t have to go to the bank
today
i can go tomorrow i don’t have to go to
the bank today
i can go tomorrow so this is
an example of this kind of sentence to
describe an action you can do
later okay so remember the key is
to express a reasonable expectation
oh february kmt on facebook said we
don’t have to attend the meeting this
week
perfect very nice example very nice
example oh niche
also on facebook says i don’t have to go
to work for
a long time great very nice example
uh anger juma khan malala on facebook
says i
i don’t have to play football today okay
david wyland wrote i don’t have to drink
alcohol okay
again grammatically correct but is it
reasonable
if it’s maybe reasonable in your life to
drink alcohol maybe you’re a bartender
or something if it’s reasonable for your
everyday life
it’s okay to use okay
uh other examples let’s see youtube how
is it going over here on youtube
um oh sushi has a nice example we don’t
have to worry about making any mistakes
when we speak english ooh nice one very
nice one
victor says we don’t have to travel to
the moon
i guess that’s true that’s true we don’t
have to
travel to the moon but it seems exciting
good example
okay uh de gea that says i don’t have to
go to work this week very nice
tavares i hope says you don’t have to
take a day off good
good example good example daniela
falaroni
hi says i do not have to go to the
office i can work at home
very nice okay great so many good
examples deacra says you don’t have to
see
uh the specialist this afternoon natalia
says i don’t have to wake up early
tomorrow
nice so many good ones hey that looks
great that looks great everybody’s got
it
you fixed this issue that sounds awesome
perfect
okay phew that was great awesome job
everybody
okay i think it looks good so let’s go
to the last part let’s focus on using
this grammar
to create questions now okay nice work
everybody that was awesome
sorry i didn’t read all your examples
there are so many
on facebook and on youtube great work
okay
let’s go to the last part let’s go to
talking about
questions how do we make questions this
is really important
especially at work and at school knowing
how to make questions
with this uh this grammar let’s
go so questions how do we use
have to to make questions you can make
some questions
uh and maybe you can check the chat to
check the chat or the comments for some
question
ideas as well okay
let’s go to making questions then so
why do we need to make questions with
have to
we use have to or need to questions
to ask for information about our
responsibilities yeah we need some
details about the responsibility
or we need to ask for a reason
for responsibility like why questions
and we use yes or no have to
questions to confirm a responsibility so
confirm
means uh like to get a yes or no answer
something i have to do or don’t have to
do
so questions are very very important
with this grammar point so let’s look at
the basic pattern here
there are actually two first when you
want to use a wh
question who what where when why how
those
those questions put it at the beginning
and then do or does this depends on your
subject
here then end with have to
and your base verb okay
so for example here
what do we have to do today
what do we have to do today this is a
question
you can use with your co-workers in the
morning
so to check your to-do list for the day
what do we have to do today
what are our responsibilities for the
day what do we
have to do today right here so this
follows this
wh question what followed by do
here we use do because the subject is
we yeah what do we have to
do have to do is the base form of the
verb
and today tells us the time
period the time information okay
good let’s go to the next one next one
is where does he have to buy
tickets where does he have to buy
tickets
so in this sentence my wh question is
where where then i use does
because my subject is he so remember if
your subject is he
she or it you need to use does you have
to use
this okay all right
where does he have to buy tickets okay
finally this is another really good
question
for parties for meetings at work at
school
when you’re visiting someone else when
do you have to leave
when do you have to leave so this is
asking about someone’s schedule
when are they going to leave or when do
they have to leave
uh the current location kim’s round
hi on facebook says where do we
have to go today perfect
okay cesar says what do i have to study
tonight very nice
okay masood says why do we have to wear
a mask very good nice example sentence
free youtuber says when does she have to
go very nice
okay um no hora says what do you have to
do next week very nice
belgian says how long do i have to do
the things i don’t want
oh maybe forever all of us a few things
we don’t want to do
right uh good job what do i have to do
today
a few people are writing that fantastic
okay very very nice so this is
the wh question pattern style question
we want to get some information also
i didn’t include it here but we often
use
this uh to ask for a reason
why like why do i have to do something
why do i have to come to the office or
why do i have to
like learn this so you can use why
questions as well okay
let’s go to the final point yes or no
questions
yes or no questions are used for
confirmation
like i said confirmation means we check
right
we get a yes or no answer to confirm
something for example does he
have to leave early today does he have
to leave early today
yes he does or no he doesn’t
so to make these questions we can use
the same
pattern i talked about here this pattern
is the same
just remove the wh question yeah
so the question begins with do or
does yeah so this part of the pattern
does he have to leave early today yes or
no simple yes or no response is
perfectly fine
okay another one do you have to go
to a meeting later do you have to go to
a meeting later
so you’re asking about someone’s
schedule for later
in the day do you have to go to a
meeting later no
okay let’s let’s get lunch that kind of
thing
finally i wanted to include this one
right here it has this sad face
yeah this beautiful sad face this
question is
do we have to do we have to
this is such a common question and it
might not seem so
clear like there’s no verb here right do
we have to
what there’s no verb this is used often
to complain
about something you don’t want to do you
can change this
of course do we have to or do i have to
so if you receive a request like for
example
you like working from home but you have
to go to your office
or you have to go somewhere you don’t
want to go
you can say do i have to in that case
no verb is necessary like when the
action
is clear you can drop the verb in this
case
so this is a way to complain you’re
asking
really i have to i have this
responsibility to do this
and we usually use that sound with our
voice that tone of voice it communicates
we’re unhappy we’re complaining
do i have to do we have to
so you can use this to make a very
informal complaint i don’t recommend
using this with your boss
don’t use this in a polite situation but
you can use this
usually with family or friends uh to
complain
in a way it’s a good one very very
common so that’s why there’s no
verb at the end there do we have to
because we
understand from the conversation uh
jilingjin on youtube says do i have to
finish my homework
good example very good example do i have
to
okay very good uh other ones uh
oh uh john jean carlos ah on youtube i
saw your question let me find it again
jean carlos aurela says don’t you have
to work today
yeah great one you can use the negative
form here as well
to make a a confirmation question
like you think the other person has to
work
and you want to confirm that you can use
the negative
yeah don’t you have to work today that
means
i think you have to work today but
you’re not working
so i want to check i’ll use the negative
form
here instead don’t you have to work
today great one
great one i didn’t cover that grammar in
today’s lesson nice sentence
okie dokie other ones many people are
writing about homework do we have to do
the homework today
probably probably okay others uh do we
have to memorize this lesson no
you don’t have to memorize this whole
lesson but
i think if you want to make sure you can
speak and write well
you should remember this grammar point
you should remember the screen or you
have to remember
this grammar point okay very nice
examples everybody
fantastic job with this grammar point
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you have lots of very exciting and
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we talked about positive statements
negative statements
and question remember big point with
negative statements
don’t have to remember to use it with
something
that we do not expect to be responsible
for
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