1. What connection have those old leaves with your getting well?
2. What connection do those old leaves have with your getting well?
Which sentence is grammatically correct? The first sentence is from the adapted short story "the last leaf" by O. Henry.
anonymous O. Henry … who died in 1910, over a century ago. English has changed since then.
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anonymousO. Henry
… who died in 1910, over a century ago. English has changed since then. Both sentences are fine grammatically, but the first is unlikely to say the least in today's US English.