Tag questions with "have".

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.
Could you tell me please if my tag questions are correct? I added less likely answers.

"She has a book, doesn't she?" ("Hasn't she?" Less likely).
"She has got a book, hasn't she?" ("Doesn't she?" Less likely).

 

[Yankee]

AmE: I would use or expect to hear: "She has a book, doesn't she?" And I would not use or expect to hear the question with "got".

 

[Rachel Adams]

"She has a book, doesn't she?" - "Hasn't she?" is more likely for my elderly generation of speakers of BrE.
"She has got a book, hasn't she?" - "Doesn't she?" is wrong.

When using these forms, I don't know how they are called: "Can't she speak faster?", "Doesn't she have a car?" Can I use "cannot she speak faster?" "Hasn't she got a car?"instead?

 

[tedmc]

When using these forms, I don't know how they are called: "Can't she speak faster?", "Doesn't she have a car?" Can I use "cannot she speak faster?" "Hasn't she got a car?"instead?

it is unnatural to use "cannot" to begin a question.
Doesn't (simple present) and hasn't (present perfect) serve different purposes.

 

[Rachel Adams]

The interrogative-negative contractions are used naturally in questions and question tags:

"Can't she speak faster?"
"Doesn't she have a car?"
"Hasn't she got a car?"

"She can speak faster, can't she?"
"She has a car, hasn't she/doesn't she?"
"She's got a car, hasn't she?"

The uncontracted forms are used only with the subject between the auxiliary and the main verb. These forms are formal and uncommon:

"Can she not speak faster?" "[STRIKE]Cannot she speak faster?[/STRIKE]"
"Does she not have a car?" "[STRIKE]Does not she have a car?[/STRIKE]"
"Has she not got a car?" "[STRIKE]Has not she got a car?[/STRIKE]".

In the same way: 1. "She hasn't a book, has she?" Without "do" both parts of the sentence are old-fashioned. Or "does she?" But if I don't use "doesn't have" in this sentence's first part, can I use "does" in its second part? Can I really put them together?
As in "She hasn't a book, does she?" Or "She doesn't have a book, has she?"

2. "She hasn't got a book, has she?" But not "does she?" As it's wrong.

 

[Rachel Adams]

"She hasn't a book, does she?" Or "She doesn't have a book, has she?"

Neither is natural.

Then my intuition was right. You don't combine them.

 

[Rachel Adams]

The interrogative-negative contractions are used naturally in questions and question tags:

"Can't she speak faster?"
"Doesn't she have a car?"
"Hasn't she got a car?"

"She can speak faster, can't she?"
"She has a car, hasn't she/doesn't she?"
"She's got a car, hasn't she?"

The uncontracted forms are used only with the subject between the auxiliary and the main verb. These forms are formal and uncommon:

"Can she not speak faster?" "[STRIKE]Cannot she speak faster?[/STRIKE]"
"Does she not have a car?" "[STRIKE]Does not she have a car?[/STRIKE]"
"Has she not got a car?" "[STRIKE]Has not she got a car?[/STRIKE]".

I also wanted to ask if "Hasn't she a car?" can be used.

 

[emsr2d2]

I also wanted to ask if "Hasn't she a car?" can be used.

It's very old-fashioned. It's the construction my late grandfather (who was born in 1921) would have used but not the generations of my family after that.