Hi I'm Arnel from Arnel's Everyday
English and today we're going to look at have, has, had, have had, has had, had had. Oh
my goodness, they all look so similar but we use them in different ways.
It's going to be easy. Have Has Had is step number one. Have had, has had, is step
number two. Had had is step number three, let's begin. Number one have, has, had. Here we have the different forms. You can
see the forms in the present simple, and you can see the form in the past simple.
Just take a look, he/she it has. We use the present simple to speak about
repeated actions, or, things that never change. I have two sisters, this will
never change. Teresa has beautiful hair. I have toast with eggs every morning.
This is a repeated action. We use the past simple for completed
actions in the past. I HAD toast with eggs for breakfast. We HAD a wonderful
time on a holiday Georgian and Estelle HAD an argument.
So there you have it, step number one is have in the present simple and past simple.
Let's go on to step number two. Have had and has had he is the
grammatical structure for the present perfect tense. When you see these
combinations you know it's the present perfect. If you want to completely
understand the present perfect, you must know what a past participle is. A past
participle is verb number three. Walk, walked, walked. Walked is my past participle. Fly,
flew, flown. Flown is my past participle. Do, did, done. Done is my past participle.
What's the past participle of have? Have, had, had. Had is my past participle. Okay, we form the present perfect using,
have or has plus the past participle, that verb number three. Half has walked,
have has flown, have has done, have has had. I have had such a busy morning. He has had two major operations this
year. We have had over 200 applicants for this
job posit ion. The present perfect is a complex tense.
But basically, an action that started in the past, has impact on the present.
That's when you use the present perfect. So we have or has, plus had, that
past participle. Okay, let's go on to step number three. Had-had, why do we use a double had?
Had had, is the grammatical structure of the past perfect tense. We form the
past perfect using had, plus past participle. Had walked, had flown, had, done
had HAD. I didn't want lunch, because I had had a
large breakfast. We wanted to go back to Barcelona
because we had had such a great time. Jim did better than me on the exam
because he had had more time to study. The past perfect, had plus past
participle. We use a past perfect to say an action in the past happened before
another past action. First I had a big breakfast, then I
didn't want lunch. First we had a great time, then we wanted to go back. First he
had more time to study, and then he did better than me. Have, has, had, have had, has
had, had had. That's very difficult to say. Done! We went over all the rules. So, be
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