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That's one of those BrE/AmE things, I think. Very generally, we form the negative with the "do" form for simple present and simple past. I run every morning, I don't run every morning. Certainly "I runn't" is wrong. I baked these cookies myself, I didn't...

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 ...

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours2) I needn't have brought that milkI = subjectneed have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle.not - adverb that - demonstrative pronoun refering to...

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...

Hi, You must be presented to win. Do I put "ed" on "present" because of "be?" No. 'Present' is an adjective here. It's like saying 'You must be quiet in class.She has offered me candy. Here, 'offered' is not an adjective. It's a past...

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...

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ