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Let’s Learn Having Verbs

A having verb tells what a person or thing has.

Read the following sentences.

The stool has We have The boys had

three legs. yellow shoes. a computer.

In the above sentences, the words has, have and had tell us what a person or thing has.

These words show belonging or possession. These are also called having verbs.

Practice Time 3

Choose the correct having verbs given in brackets to fi ll in the blanks.

1. Monkeys _______________ long tails. (has/have)

2. Mohit _______________ a new puppy. (has/have)

3. Sarah _______________ a blue pen. (have/had)

4. My brother _______________ to decide. (have/had)

5. Ria _______________ dinner at 8 p.m. (had/have)

6. Jolly _______________ done well in the tests. (has/have)

7. I _______________ a bicycle. (has/had)

8. I _______________ bought fi ve pens. (has/have)

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Activity Time Verbs

Form two teams — A and B. Team A will fi rst enact any 10 ac� on words which Team B
will try to guess. Next, Team B will enact and Team A will guess. A� er both the teams

have enacted and guessed, the team with the maximum number of correct guesses

will be declared the winner.
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