Questions

1. general: Have you (got) a car? – Yes, I have/ No, I haven’t.

Do you have lunch at 2? – Yes, I do. / No, I don’t. Has your sister got a boyfriend? – Yes, she has.

2. Special: What have you got there? – Nothing. Where do you have lunch? – At home.

How often do you have parties?

3. Altetrnative: Have you got a sister or a brother? – Both. Do you have lunch at home or at work?

4. Disjunctive: You have lunch at home, don’t you? You don’t have lunch at home, do you?

You’ve got a car, haven’t you? You haven’t got any money, have you?

5. Object clause: I don’t know if she’s got a car. I’d like to know if he has lunch at home.

I wonder when he has a holiday.

The Verb to do

Notional			Auxiliary
I We You They He She It	work works	every day. every day.	Do	I we you they	work every day?
			Does	He She It	work?
I We You they	do not don’t	work every day.	Don’t	I we you they	work? (разве… не…?)
He She It	does not doesn’t	work.	Doesn’t	He She it	work? (разве … не…?)

Emphatic ‘do’

Neutral: This picture is nice.

Emphatic: This picture is nice. (действительно, правда, на самом деле, etc.)

I like it. I do like it.

The city centre gets crowded, doesn’t it? The city centre does get crowded, doesn’t it?

It looks nice. It does look nice.

1. Do can be added in imperatives for emphasis. Do hurry up, or we’ll be late. Oh, do be quiet. I’m trying to concentrate.( the speaker may be worried or annoyed).

2. Do have some more tea. Do take a seat, won’t you? (In invitations and offers ‘do’ sounds very polite).