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Question:Does she havea car?
Don’t Say
–Yes, shehas. (or Yes, she have.)
–No, shehas not. (or No, she haven’t)
Say This:
–Yes, shedoes.
–No, shedoesn’t.
Remember:
- If theQUESTIONbegins with“Does”,ANSWERwith the verb“does”.
- Does is used with he, she, or it.
- Does he have a headache? — Yes, he does. (No, he doesn’t.)
- Does she have a problem? — Yes, she does. (or No, she doesn’t.)
- Does your computer have a camera? — Yes, itdoes. (No, itdoesn’t)
- Does she have…. any children? many friends? a good job?
2 thoughts on “Short Answers for “Does she have…?””
Why ‘have’ is used with does in question sentence? Have is associated to plural forms also including you and I
Hello Dona. In a regular (affirmative) sentence, you use ‘has’ with he/she/it. (She has a son.) But in a question, you use the ‘base form’ of the verb. Here, the base form is ‘have’ (to have). So… Does she have a son?
You can see more explanation in our new article about this: http://faesl.edublogs.org/2019/03/02/yes-no-questions-with-does/