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English Grammar – Negative Forms of MUST & HAVE TO
Learn the subtle differences between must and have to, and mustn’t and don’t have to. This English grammar lesson will explain how to use must and have to in the past, present, and future tenses. If you haven’t seen James’s lesson on MUST & HAVE TO, you should watch that one first.
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Arnoldo
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shocolaa
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valon
Dear,Ms
I am from Kosovo,may be you know,in the Balkan area.I work as an English teacher in my town,Ferizaj.Thank you very much,for videos and for advices in writing and reading sentences,with obligation and prohibiton meaning,using must and have to, in order to create correct sentences,because of we know that is very difficult to take true form for those two clauses.
Yurs faithfully
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Hoppel
Dear Valen
you do realy a great job!
I wonder you can help me. I couldn’t find the “test” you mentioned.
Could you show me please, where I can find the test?
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Best wishes
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Esmaeil
THANKS ALOT ……….I WISH U MAKE AVIDEO AOUT CLAUSES AND PHRASES……..SHOWING THEIR TYPES……….THANKS AGAIN………
Kadir YURTSEVER
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…. Sorry I’m a beginner so no comments if there was errors.
dadymouh
Sorry
I must thank you Valen (how should I call you? Miss or Madame?)
this lesson and all the other lessons are very simple and you are the one who make it simple because your way of teaching is very good
thank you.
Tethkar
thanks ,it was very useful lesson , I’m excited to see more lesson.
Dina
Hi. I found out in my Dictinory Oxford that Must is just used for the present tense, but in your video you say it can be used for past as well. could you help me to clarify that, thanks a lot.
Sorry to confuse you Dina. “Must” is used for the present tense.
ValenESL
ayman
I think that “must” word you can’t change the meaning and can not also change a tenses …
micolyandri
i still confused to different about must and have to in daily activities
chinna katiki
Simple..But Use full
fathye
thank you ,but I still confused
Zamir
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carlos18
I found it really interesting and useful this video. I would like to see a explaination about the uses of prepostions when I gotta use at/on/in/ from behind it would be a great help thanks.
mukhtiar abbasi
Hi Alen!
You are so good looking and the way you speak is cool. I am alos an English teacher in Larkana Pakistan. I watched your video on “must” and “have to” . But I am not still clear that what is the difference between the two expressions. You simply wrote the sentences with the the words but did not clear the difference in the meaning. Hope you would clearify the difference in the next video.
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I am always confuse to understand the diffrent use of (been) when it hints toward diffrent thing. if you can do some thing about this . It will be great.
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seti
what about “should” and “shouldn’t”? :)
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jmh4563
I have some grammar questions and I don’t know who to ask, also I think you are really good at explaing so I thought it would be great if you could answer my quesitons.
1)when do we use ‘is’ and ‘does’?
forexample, isn’t this good? doesn’t this feel good?
I don’t know which one to uset when I make quesions.
2) I am not sure when to put ‘the’ in front of the places.
When we are talking about places, sometimes you put the, and sometimes you don’t put it. so I am very confused.
3) When do we use would, and could?
I know they are past tense verbs. will-would, can-could
but we also use it to show the possibilities.
Forexample, I would~ or if I could~
I hope you could answer my questions, thanks! :D
ming
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modaway
Nice lesson,and good explained.
valen
what.present simple
noor
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phunganhdung
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Ali Wadi Abbas
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MaseH
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SHAJIR jagayil
thank you so much verlin
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baynaa
hi valen. I am from Mongolia . Can you help me figure this out I am undersand in English but I cant speak.
khairy
I have been dealing English for more than 15 years ago,but this is 1st time
I hear “mustn’t” as one independent word I used to hear/write/speak it as “must not” is this common in Canadian accent ? .
Tank You a lot teacher Valen
omar
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Ankit Tyagi
Hi Valen. I am Ankit from India. I am a little confuse about conditional sentences. I would be lucky one if you tell me about conditonal sentences. I hope you will .
paradeck
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anly
thanks……
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sunilbijili
hello madam,
I would like to thank you for the lessons you taught, i want to you to explain the difference between active and passive voice.
thank u
Tiyatro
hello teacher,
I
Osama
I just wanted to say, you can use (can) in the example of
You don’t have to arrive before 8.
=
you can arrive before 8 (it is up to you)
You must not arrive before 8.
=
you can not arrive before 8. (it is not allowed)
Uthai
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Sayed
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You are really very good but would you please talk more slowly so that people who are not native speakers can understand you completely?
Thank you very much.
Sayed
MRABBASI
Hi
VALEN
you are doing marvellou job.Keep going
this at last.
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Emil Ibragimov
Hi Valen!I’ve important question about “when we use -have to-and-must-.I’ve read,that we use: have to-when the necessity authorization from another person to us.For example:”I HAVE TO go and talk to her”I mean,”SHE” decide that i must go and talk to her.And,when i say”I MUST go and talk to her”hear i mean,”I” decide to go to her-is it correct defination?