I haven't, have I?

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

What is the difference between ''I haven't'' and ''I don't have'', ''Have I?'' ''Do I have?''

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello.

What is the difference between ''I haven't'' and ''I don't have'', and between ''Have I?'' and ''Do I have?''

"I don't have" and "Do I have?" are ungrammatical. They would both require an object. The others are possible in the right context.

Have you been to Spain?
I haven't.

You've got spaghetti sauce on your chin.
Have I?

For one of the others, you need at least one more word.

Do you have any eggs?
I don't have any.
or
I don't have any eggs.
or
I don't.

There is no context in which "Do I have?" is possible as a standalone question.

 

[jutfrank]

I haven't ...
Have I ...

Here, have is an auxiliary verb.

I don't have ...
Do I have ...

Here, have is a lexical verb.

 

[Rachel Adams]

"I don't have" and "Do I have?" are ungrammatical. They would both require an object. The others are possible in the right context.

Have you been to Spain?
I haven't.

You've got spaghetti sauce on your chin.
Have I?

For one of the others, you need at least one more word.

Do you have any eggs?
I don't have any.
or
I don't have any eggs.
or
I don't.

There is no context in which "Do I have?" is possible as a standalone question.

I should have added an object. I was not asking about the sentences with the Present Perfect and ''have got'' in them. I was asking if it is possible to remove ''do'' in the examples like these ones ''Do you have new textbooks?'' ''Have you new textbooks?'' ''I don't have new books.'' ''I haven't new books.'' If I am not mistaken, I read somewhere that it's old use.

 

[GoesStation]

I should have added an object. I was not asking about the sentences with the Present Perfect and ''have got'' in them. I was asking if it is possible to remove ''do'' in the examples like these ones ''Do you have new textbooks?'' ''Have you new textbooks?'' ''I don't have new books.'' ''I haven't new books.'' If I am not mistaken, I read somewhere that it's old use.

It is.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It is possible to remove ''do'' and it's old use. Right?

 

[Tarheel]

I should have added an object. I was not asking about the sentences with the present erfect and ''have got'' in them. I was asking if it is possible to remove ''do'' in the examples like these [STRIKE]ones[/STRIKE] ''Do you have any new textbooks?'' ''Have you any new textbooks?'' ''I don't have any new books.'' ''I haven't any new books.'' If I am not mistaken, I read somewhere that it's old use.

Please give up on using "these ones".

I am taken back to the old nursery rhyme: "Ba ba black sheep have you any wool".

It seems like you want to learn archaic usage.

 

[emsr2d2]

I should have added an object. I was not asking about [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] sentences with the present perfect and ''have got'' in them. I was asking if it is possible to remove ''do'' in the examples like these: [STRIKE]ones[/STRIKE]

''Do you have new textbooks?'' > ''Have you new textbooks?''
''I don't have new books.'' > ''I haven't new books.''

If I am not mistaken, I read somewhere that it's old use.

I would not have worked out that that was your question from the contents of post 1, nor from your title (which led me to assume your post would be about tag questions). If you had written what you wrote in post #4 in post #1, there would have been no confusion.

Using "Have you + noun?" is definitely old usage. My grandfather (born in 1921) would have said, for example, "Have you milk?" whereas today we use "Have you got [any] milk?" or "Do you have [any] milk?"

In the negative, I find it very unnatural. I would say that "I don't have new books" is quite unlikely without "any".

 

[jutfrank]

I would not have worked out that that was your question from the contents of post 1, nor from your title (which led me to assume your post would be about tag questions). If you had written what you wrote in post #4 in post #1, there would have been no confusion.

And I thought the question was about the grammatical difference between forms, an unthanked/unliked explanation of which I wrote in post #3.

Rachel Adams—I've said this countless times before but you really need to work on your original posts. They often tend to waste a lot of our time.