Do you have? Yes, I do/have

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

Is 'yes I do'', or no, ''I don't'' correct answer to the question in bold?

''Do you have vegetables for lunch''?
'' Yes, I have. Yes, I do''.
''No, I haven't. No, I don't''.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Isn't there an explanation why it should be ''Yes, I do/No, I don't, and not yes I have/No, I haven't?

 

[Rachel Adams]

As in:I had to go, or she has just arrived?

 

[emsr2d2]

"Yes I have/No I haven't" would be possible answers (in this context) to "Have you had vegetables for lunch?" However, the more common question would be "Did you have vegetables for lunch?"

 

[Tdol]

''Do you have vegetables for lunch''?

Are you asking whether the person eats vegetables for lunch or has got vegetables for lunch?

 

[jutfrank]

Are you asking whether the person eats vegetables for lunch or has got vegetables for lunch?

Yes, this is a crucial question. Different senses of have would elicit different answers: either Yes, I do or Yes, I have respectively.

 

[GoesStation]

Yes, this is a crucial question. Different senses of have would elicit different answers: either Yes, I do or Yes, I have respectively.

Most Americans would say Yes, I do in both contexts.

 

[Tdol]

As a BrE speaker, I would not necessarily follow suit.

 

[jutfrank]

Different senses of have would elicit different answers: either Yes, I do or Yes, I have respectively.

Perhaps I should have said could elicit different answers.

 

[Rachel Adams]

I am sorry for my late reply. I didn't think about it, to be honest. If I asked: ''do you have vegetables for lunch today''? or ''do you always have vegetables for lunch''? Answering both questions as: ''Yes, I do'' would be wrong?

 

[Rachel Adams]

''It is only when it is used as an auxiliary verb or (for some speakers of BrE) with a meaning similar to 'possess' that it does not use auxiliary Have for those forms''.
Could you please provide an example? I am not sure the examples I have in mind are correct: ''I have a car''. ''I haven't a car''. ''Have I a car''?(are these the forms you were talking about? I read in my textbook such forms are not very common. English Grammar Azar)

 

[Tdol]

Do you have a shower before you go to work? (Not an auxiliary or similar to possess- an action)