Didn't or haven't, what is the difference?
For sample. Someone had lost his job months ago. I want to know if he has been unemployed since then. I should ask using:

Didn't you have a job since then?

OR

You haven't had a job since then?

Please tell me what is the right answer and why is it right.

Question

Didn't or haven't, what is the difference?
For sample. Someone had lost his job months ago.  I want to know if he has been unemployed since then. I should ask using:

Didn't you have  a job since then?

OR

You haven't had a job since then?

Please tell me what is the right answer and why is it right.

Answer

both are correct, the first is more American.

Answer

Yeah, it is make sense. Search the sentece at google it was a amanzing hint too. Thank you Jacob.

Answer

"You haven't had a job since then?"

I believe "haven't had since" is correct because it implies a continuous state of something happening.

If you Google each phrase in quotes, you'll see there are only 8 instances of "didn't have since" being used on the internet. There are 341,000 for "haven't had since". (You need to use quotation marks to do an exact match search though.)

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