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present perfect and short answer
Is the question and short answer correct?
Who has had lunch yet? He has.
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Re: present perfect and short answer
'Who hasn't had lunch yet?' is natural; 'Who has had lunch yet?' is not. We'd ask, 'Who has had luch (so far)?' or 'Who has already had lunch?' The answer is fine, if we know who 'he' is.
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Re: present perfect and short answer
So we say "who hasn't had lunch yet?" and the short naswer is "he has" not "he hasn't". Why? I think because the verb is negative, the short answer must be negative too.
And when we say "Who isn't at home?", what is the correct short answer? "Mat isn't" or "Mat is"?
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Re: present perfect and short answer

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English4everyone
So we say "who hasn't had lunch yet?" and the short naswer is "he has" not "he hasn't". Why? I think because the verb is negative, the short answer must be negative too.
If 'he' has had lunch, then the response is "He has (had lunch". If 'he' hasn't had lunch, then the answer is "He hasn't' (had lunch).
And when we say "Who isn't at home?", what is the correct short answer? "Mat isn't" or "Mat is"?
If Mat is not at home, then the answer is "Mat isn't (at home)" - or just "Mat".
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