{"id":72812,"date":"2019-11-11T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72812"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:00:27","slug":"must-vs-have-to-english-speaking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/must-vs-have-to-english-speaking-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Must vs. Have To | English Speaking Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Must<\/strong> can be used in affirmative sentences to say that something is necessary. This is common in British English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must improve your English.<\/li>\n<li>He must work hard.<\/li>\n<li>I must be there before 9 o\u2019clock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In American English, <strong>have to<\/strong> is more common.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has to work hard. She has to improve your communication skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must<\/strong> can also be used to ask if something is necessary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must I finish the work today itself?<\/li>\n<li>Must I clean all the rooms?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In American English, <strong>have to<\/strong> is preferred.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do I have to finish the work today itself?<\/li>\n<li>Do I have to clean all the rooms?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In British English, <strong>must not<\/strong> can be used to prohibit people from doing things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must not tell this to anybody.<\/li>\n<li>You must not open this packet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To say that things are unnecessary, we usually use <strong>\u2018do not have to\u2019 or \u2018do not need to\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t need to be a rocket scientist to understand this.<\/li>\n<li>If you have already applied, you don\u2019t have to apply again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To talk about past necessity, we can use <strong>had to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I was a child, I had to walk three miles to school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must can be used in affirmative sentences to say that something is necessary. This is common in British English. You must improve your English. He must work hard. I must be there before 9&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1850,1626,1851],"class_list":["post-72812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-have-to","tag-must","tag-must-or-have-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72813,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72812\/revisions\/72813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}