"Have" without "do"

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

When using "have" with "breakfast", "bath", "a great time", etc it isn't wrong not to use "do", is it?
For example, "She has breakfast at 8." "She hasn't breakfast at 8." "Has she breakfast at 8?"

[Yankee]

You need a form of "do" with the negative and question, e.g. "doesn't have" and "does she have".

[GoesStation]

"She has breakfast at 8."
"She hasn't breakfast at 8."
"Has she breakfast at 8?"

The last one is grammatical but rarely used by anyone under seventy years of age.

[Rachel Adams]

The last one is grammatical but rarely used by anyone under seventy years of age.

Is it an exeption? Saying "She hasn't a job" or "Has she a job?" Isn't wrong but using "have" in my original sentences is either wrong or unnatural. Is it because the meaning of "have" in "Has she a job?" "She hasn't a job" is different?

[emsr2d2]

We use "do" only to emphasise something in declarative sentences. Otherwise, we tend not to (unless "do" is the main verb, of course).

She has a job.
Does she have a job?
Has she a job? Grammatical but so old-fashioned, it would sound very odd to all native speakers.
She doesn't have a job.
Doesn't she have a job?
Has she no job? Grammatical but, again, old-fashioned.

In your original examples, another old-fashioned usage would be "Does she breakfast at eight?" Here, "breakfast" is used as a verb. We rarely do that nowadays.

[Rachel Adams]

We use "do" only to emphasise something in declarative sentences. Otherwise, we tend not to (unless "do" is the main verb, of course).

She has a job.
Does she have a job?
Has she a job? Grammatical but so old-fashioned, it would sound very odd to all native speakers.
She doesn't have a job.
Doesn't she have a job?
Has she no job? Grammatical but, again, old-fashioned.

In your original examples, another old-fashioned usage would be "Does she breakfast at eight?" Here, "breakfast" is used as a verb. We rarely do that nowadays.

So all sentences with "have" without "do" show old-fashioned use. My original sentences don't sound natural because of that and it doesn't matter if "has" means to "own" something or eat something as in "to have breakfast"?

[Piscean]

Is it an exception? Saying "She hasn't a job" or "Has she a job?" Isn't wrong but using "have" in my original sentences is either wrong or unnatural. Is it because the meaning of "have" in "Has she a job?" "She hasn't a job" is different?

Yes.

When HAVE means, in the broadest possible sense, possess, some of us older Brits do not use auxiliary DO. With HAVE in its other meanings, we always use auxiliary DO.

[Rachel Adams]

Yes.

When HAVE means, in the broadest possible sense, possess, some of us older Brits do not use auxiliary DO. With HAVE in its other meanings, we always use auxiliary DO.

Other meanings as in "have a bath", "have fun", "have a shower" "have dinner" , "have a meal". Right? These should have "do".

[Piscean]

Yes.

[PaulMatthews]

Is it an exeption? Saying "She hasn't a job" or "Has she a job?" Isn't wrong but using "have" in my original sentences is either wrong or unnatural. Is it because the meaning of "have" in "Has she a job?" "She hasn't a job" is different?

You need to distinguish dynamic "have" and static "have". Dynamic "have" is a lexical verb for all speakers, but static have (which expresses such meanings as possession or obligation) is for some speakers an auxiliary verb, especially in the present tense.

This means that for negatives, we have either "don’t have" or "haven’t", and analogously with inversion. Consider these examples:

He doesn’t have enough money. [lexical "have"]
He hasn’t enough money. [auxiliary "have"]

Does he have enough money? [lexical "have"]
Has he enough money? [auxiliary "have"]

As you can see, lexical "have" requires do-support, whereas auxiliary "have" doesn't.