HAVE TO

Using ‘have to’ suggests that someone else or some outside circumstances make something necessary. I have to see the head teacher. (… she has called me to her office.) The negative and interrogative are formed with the auxiliary verb ‘do/ did’. I don’t have to cook; my mother does it for me. (NOT I haven’t t o cook)

I had (didn’t have) to take an interview before I got the job.( past simple) You will have to take an interview before you get the job.( future simple) You would have to take an interview if you applied.( conditional mood) I have never had to take an interview to get a job. ( present perfect) You seem to have to do all the typing at the office. (infinitive)

Ex 2 Complete the sentences with a suitable form of ‘ have to’.

1. You ……...… (not) have a visa, if you are from the European Union.

2. He …………. take the dog out to do his business three times a day.

3. From now onwards, you … see to the household chores, as I’ll be out working

4. Take your time. You ……………. (not) give us an answer right now.

5. I’m really nervous as I …………. never …….... take an exam before.

6. I wish I ……………… (not) to take a trolley-bus to get to university.

7. There were many mistakes so I ……… write the essay all over again.

8. If you quitted, they ……. employ another person in next to no time.

9. My father's a customs official so he always ………. wear a uniform at work, but my mother's a teacher so she ………………... wear one.

10. When I was a teenager, we …………….. be home by nine o'clock. But we ……………..… take as many exams as teenagers nowadays.

11. …… your grandmother ………leave school when she was fourteen?

12. I can’t see the small print very well. I think I …… wear glasses soon.

13. I wish I ………………………. (not) take so many exams.

14. If I had failed my exam, I …………….… take it again in two weeks.