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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 ...

Hi Your sentence is in the present perfect. " Have you ever had ..." " the feeling " is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not...

Hi, Be careful, sometimes the verb "have" and the past participle (or "had" and the past participle, if we are talking about the past perfect) are not adjacent, so you cannot make your choice by simply looking at their proximity! All of the following sentences, for instance,...

Is it a rule that the auxiliary, the past participle and the main verb are immediately after one another with no other words inbetween? For example: "Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?" This sentence has both "have" and "had" and two...

are. What has happened to them in Modern English? There was no future tense in Old English even though the predecessor of will was sometimes used to indicate future action. Its meaning was "to want, to desire" and will has mostly lost this meaning. It is still present in some...

1. Well, "had" is the past tense of the verb "have", but I think you're asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs: I played -- simple past tense I have played -- present perfect tense I had played -- past...

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."...

Hi, Please take a look at the sentence below and tell me why the past perfect is used? Is it used since the fact contain within there is relevant to the present situation? I am used to seeing the present perfect being used in the main clause and it seems a little foreign to see it in a...

Verb = swim Swam = past simple tense. Refers to actions/events in past time. "She swam a kilometre yesterday." No connection with present time. Swum = past participle. Used to form the pefect tense with auxiliary verb "have" - have/has/had + past participle = perfect tense. Note the...

Old Eladio wrote: CJ: "Past: I had to go. (had is the main verb)" "In short, only the present and past tenses require the addition of do or does (present), or did (past) before inverting" Now, if I write: "I had made a serious mistake" or "I had to do it"; are the corresponding...