have - present and past

Examples:

Present Tense Past Tense

I have We have I had We had
You have You have You had You had
He has He had
She has They have She had They had
It has It had
I have a garden in my
backyard. (present tense)

I had a garden in my
backyard last year,
too. (past tense)

You have some

schoolwork to do.

You also had some work to

do yesterday.

He has a beehive full of

bees.

He had a beehive when he

was a child.

Do you have any interest in

bees?

She has a fear of spiders.

Do you have a fear of

anything?
 They have fun playing in
the water.

They had a good time in

the pool last week, too.

Questions

Present Tense Past Tense

Do I have... Do we have... Did I have... Did we have...
Do you have... Do you have... Did you have... Did you have...
Does he have... Did he have...
Does she have... Do they have... Did she have... Did they have...
Does it have... Did it have...

Negatives

Present Tense - Negative Past Tense - Negative

do / does + not + main verb did + not + main verb

I don't have We don't have I didn't have We didn't have
You don't have You don't have You didn't have You didn't have
He doesn't have He didn't have
She doesn't have They don't have She didn't have They didn't have
It doesn't It didn't have

It's important to understand in the examples above that

the main verb is in the simple form: have

Be careful when answering questions that include the verb "have."

Below are examples of how to make the present tense and

the past tense negative with verbs other than "have."

simple past
 have had
eat ate
see saw
be was / were

Today I don't have any work to do. (present tense)

Yesterday I didn't have any work to do. (past tense)

I usually don't eat a big breakfast. (present tense)

Yesterday I didn't eat a big breakfast. (past tense)

I don't see movies very often. (present tense)

I didn't see that movie yet. (past tense)

The verb "have" is also used as an auxiliary verb

(or you can call it a "helping verb") when
making the present perfect tense.

To make the present perfect:

has or have + the past participle

You will learn more about this in Lesson Three.

He has
finished his
beer.

There isn't
any beer left
in the glass.