In Past perfect^x, Auxiliaries^x

HiYour 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 saying they...

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 choices simply by simply looking at their proximity! All of the following sentences, for...

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...

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...

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 contexts,...

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 perfect (or...

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...

Hi NaderI'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. Has he talking? is wrong. You could say: Has he been talking?If you are asking whether a have or has question can always be formed by changing the word order, the answer is no. It is safer to use do in the present tense:Does he have...

Vincent Teo wrote:Thanks your reply. My friends said, we must use "has also", but not "also has". Does he correct?Is he correct? I already gave you the correct answer, VT. If have, has or had is the only verb, also is before it:I also have news for you.He also has a new car.They also had...

Hi, Which of the following is correct? and why? "I am sure you never had heard this before." or "I am sure you had never heard this before." You can say either, but #2 is much more common. It's idiomatic, ie we like to say it that way. Also, consider what happens when you repllace 'never'...