[Vocabulary] Short answer + "has got to" , "has to "

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Following is a question and it's corresponding short answer . Please correct me if any of the short answer is wrong.
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QUESTION: He has to do this work first .Hasn't he ?


SOME POSSIBLE SHORT ANSWER -
Yes,he has
No ,he doesn't have
Yes, he has to .
No , he doesn't have to .
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QUESTION : He has got to do a lot of work .Hasn't he ?


SOME POSSIBLE SHORT ANSWER :
Yes, he has .
No , he hasn't .
Yes , he has to
No ,he doesn't have to
Yes , he has got to
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For both, either simply "Yes" or "No" or "Yes, he does" or "No, he doesn't"
 

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Thanks a lot . Ur reply is simple and very clear .
 

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Thank u so much for ur answer . I usually struggle while replying in short .I asked this in some other post but didn't get an answer .

Can you please help me .

Please tell me if the following sentences are correct .
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Jack : You said you had to leave early today .You had some party .
Jill : Yes I am supposed to . But some important work is there.I can not .
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Jack : Yesterday you said you would come back early .But you became very late ?
Jill : Yes it happened to . But I thought to come back early .
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Jack : Don't you think Robin should be the winner.
Jill : Yes, he deserve to .He may.
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For both, either simply "Yes" or "No" or "Yes, he does" or "No, he doesn't"
Hm, did you mean to say that the tags in both sentences were OK?
 

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Thank u so much for ur answer . I usually struggle while replying in short .I asked this in some other post but didn't get an answer .

Can you please help me .

Please tell me if the following sentences are correct .
My responses are based on what you would most likely hear/read in typical AmE.
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Jack : You said you had to leave early today .You had some party .
OK. But "some" would only be used if Jack wasn't sure/clear about the type of party. Otherwise, it would probably be "a party".
Jill : Yes I am supposed to . But some important work is there.I can not . (More typical) "But I have some important work to do. I can't."
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Jack : Yesterday you said you would come back early .But you became very late ?
"Became" is not correct in this context. "Came back" would be typical.
Jill : Yes it happened to . But I thought to come back early . Neither statement is correct. Possible statement: "Yes, but I couldn't and I thought I would be able to."
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Jack : Don't you think Robin should be the winner.
Jill : Yes, he deserve
s to .He might be.______________________________________________________________


Regards,
Deb

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Thanks a lot .
I have some more doubt like this . If you permit I will ask you .
May I ?
 

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Feel free to post further individual specific questions about any topic. However, your posts are somewhat difficult to read because of repeated errors in punctuation. Please remember that we do not put a space before a comma, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, close bracket or closing quotation mark. You might like to hit the Edit Post button on each one of your posts and fix those issues. I realise that sometimes people don't understand the importance of punctuation but please rest assured that it is very important.
 
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