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Welcome to English Forums! The grammar for the verb have is not different from that of any other verb, like take , for example. Don't confuse auxiliary have with main verb have . Auxiliary have is applied to all verbs to create the perfect tenses. Present perfect: He, she, it has had ...

These terms may not be the same everywhere but the basic grammar of the language is the same all over the Anglo-Saxon world! Would have had completed is always wrong. Would is a defective/modal auxiliary and only an infinitive is possible after these auxiliaries. In this case the perfect...

By "true" I think you mean "correct"? True is the opposite of false, but doesn't apply to grammar. Only you can tell if your cell phone has no power, which would make the statement true. As far as correct goes, you could say "My cellphone has no power already."...

Mister Micawber wrote: Future Simple (I will sit) Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting) Future Perfect (I will have sat") Present Simple (I sit) Past Simple (I sat) Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting) Past Perfect (I had sat) Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

Pastsimple wrote: Maple wrote: Which principles have been violated by those three poor sentences? I especially don't like the " must not have contained" part. The sentences strike me as odd and unnatural. Here is a dollar, I don't have 2 cents….I think...

OK - I've got the answer. Sorry it took so long, but I had to do the research, so I bought a copy of "The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar", (No disputing the authority of that, I hope?), and looked up "plupluperfect". So here's what it said: plulpluperfect - A verb phrase that...

Jack112 wrote: Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them? 1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct) 2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How...

Looking over the replies, I think that it's something to do with the writer's focus. The writer isn't thinking about 1921 but, about the consequencies. The focus is later - say the second world war. My grammar book says that the auxiliary of the perfect ('have') is used when the writer is...

Do you agree that the subjunctive mood is only used in the following ways? A. Present subjunctive. -1. All verb forms are the same as for the present tense except in the third person singular. There, use the infinitive (without to ). -I/you/we/they launch the shuttle. (present indicative) ...

Very true, Aeolus29. There are only two tense inflections in English - the "s" for the present (only for third person singular), and the "ed" for the past. In this sense there are only two tenses. All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and/or modals with the...