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Is the correct grammar you have to send us anything or nothing?

The correct grammar is: "Do you have to send us anything, or nothing?"

Here's why:

* "You have to send us" is a grammatically correct phrase, but it's incomplete. It needs an object to tell us what we have to send.

* "Anything, or nothing?" This is a grammatically correct phrase, but it doesn't make sense on its own.

* "Do you have to send us anything, or nothing?" This is the correct way to phrase the question. It uses the auxiliary verb "do" to form a question and makes sense in context.

The original phrase was grammatically incorrect because it was missing a verb to connect the two parts of the sentence.

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