{"id":45,"date":"2019-04-17T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/zyle\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","slug":"must-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/must-have-to.htm","title":{"rendered":"Must &#038; Have to &#8211; English grammar courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we will study the verbs \u201cMust\u201d and \u201cHave to\u201d and get to know their differences. Both Have to and Must are used to express an obligation. Must is subjective and means that the speaker is the one who thinks this is an obligation. \u201cHave to\u201d is objective and means the speaker is the one being obliged.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I must stop smoking.<\/li>\n<li>My parents warned me that I have to stop smoking.<\/li>\n<li>The teacher is strict so you must do your homework.<\/li>\n<li>The teacher is strict so you have to do your homework.<\/li>\n<li>You must visit London as it\u2019s a beautiful city.<\/li>\n<li>You have to visit London as it\u2019s a beautiful city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you see, \u2018have to\u2019 expresses an obligation due to outside effect, and \u2018must\u2019 is just an opinion of the speaker. In the case of the \u201cYou must visit London as it\u2019s a beautiful city\u201d sentence, the opinion is of the person saying it to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also it is common in British English to say \u201chave got to\u201d instead of \u201chave to\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have got to get ready vs. I have to get ready.<\/li>\n<li>I have got to work vs. I have to work.<\/li>\n<li>He has got to be joking vs. He has to be joking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWill have to\u201d, strangely, can mean the exact same as \u201cmust\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will have to talk soon.<\/li>\n<li>They will have to arrive soon.<\/li>\n<li>She will have to call me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust\u201d is sometimes used to express a deduction and to certify that something is true. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You ate the cake alone so it must be delicious.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody is talking about Messi so he must be a good player.<\/li>\n<li>You look tired so you must have had a difficult day.<\/li>\n<li>He is happy so something good must have happened to him.<\/li>\n<li>This car is expensive so it must be good.<\/li>\n<li>This house is big so it must be nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the negative forms the verbs have different meanings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust not\u201d means prohibition from doing something and is a strong obligation not to do it. \u201cMust not\u201d can be abbreviated as \u201cmustn\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must not break the law.<\/li>\n<li>The doctor told me that I must not drink alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>My mother told me that I must not go there.<\/li>\n<li>He must not go outside since he is sick.<\/li>\n<li>I mustn\u2019t sleep too much.<\/li>\n<li>You mustn\u2019t be so hasty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cNot+Have to\u201d means that there is no necessity to do something:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The teacher is ill so I don\u2019t have to go to school.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t have to listen to me since you look busy.<\/li>\n<li>They don\u2019t have to come tonight.<\/li>\n<li>If she retires, she won\u2019t have to work anymore.<\/li>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t have to bring gifts every time he comes here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Fill the gaps with the proper words: must, have to, must not, not+have to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You ____ call me in the afternoon tomorrow as I have work.<\/li>\n<li>She ____ be so cold outside in the snow.<\/li>\n<li>You ____ to be so formal. We\u2019re friends now!<\/li>\n<li>I ____ send my boss this email. It\u2019s important.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we will study the verbs \u201cMust\u201d and \u201cHave to\u201d and get to know their differences. Both Have to and Must are used to express an obligation. Must is subjective and means that the speaker is the one who thinks this is an obligation. \u201cHave to\u201d is objective and means the speaker is the one &#8230; <a title=\"Must &#038; Have to &#8211; English grammar courses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/must-have-to.htm\" aria-label=\"Read more about Must &#038; Have to &#8211; English grammar courses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}