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nasserph

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Hi

What dose it mean YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT?

and whats the negative form of this sentence?
 

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What [STRIKE]dose[/STRIKE] does [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] this mean: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT?
You have a moral or legal claim to this. Nobody can (or should) stop you doing it.
 

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not a teacher

Or "You don't have the right".
 

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My feeling that 'You have no, right' is more common than 'You don't have the right' in BrE was confirmed by the British National Corpus - 26 examples of the former, none of the latter. I was a little surprised to find that the former was also more common in AmE; the Corpus of Contemporary American showed 116 examples, with 51 for the latter.
 

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Thanks guys
 
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