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- Verb "to Be" And Its Agreement
How to use ?To be? verbs (is , are ,am)"Is" ? it is a singular verb and comes with singular third person. Like - ( he is a god student), "Am" - come with first person singular "Are" - with third person plural...
- Present Perfect Tense - Sentences And Exercises
We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a...
- Uses Of Different Forms Of Verbs
Uses of Different Forms of Verbs We now know that Verb has six forms: 1. Present Form 2. Past Form ...
- Combination Of Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs It is clear that Auxiliary Verbs are used only with the Non-finite Forms of a Verb when they are used as a verb taking a Subject. We now know that Verb has six Forms, namely:1. Present form2. Past form3. Present Participle4. Past...
- Forms Of Verbs
Forms of Verbs Finite Forms: We have already known about Finite Form and Non-finite Form of Verbs Finite Forms take Subject but Non-finite Forms take no Subject. Only Present Form and Past Form can take subjects. So Only Present Form...
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How to use Has/have/had
This is very important to learn where and how to use these verbs .
Some wrong expressions with present perfect
We often make a very common mistakes in our sentence, that we use past tense expression in present perfect tense. Never mix following past expressions in your present perfect sentence sentence . some past tense expressions are
?Just now? with present Perfect
We can use has/have/had with "just now"
When the work started in the past and continue to the present:
to make these kind of sentence we use this formation: (Present perfect + adverbial /prepositional phrase)
these adverbial prepositional phrase are as following
like
Causative verbs -- When the subject of your sentence is making somebody else to get the work done , there we use this formation.....
Subject+ has/ have /had + object + past participial
Past and distant past tense
When we want to say that one task started in the past and the other one happened in the distant past:
See how to make this kind of sentence.
first task is written in perfect tense and the last is written in simple past tense and to joint these two sentences we use conjunction ?
like... When, before, after
Second Action - I reached
So first action always come with perfect tense and the second with simple past tense.
Example
Formation of compulsion /necessity /obligation sentences
Subject + has/have/had got +infinitive
Example
Subject + has /have / had +infinitive
Sub+had/have/has +no/ not any+ noun
Interrogatives with has /have/ had:
like- Supposed, expect, hope, think, wish, want intend Past perfect + infinitive
in the repetitive use of have, had and had: the first had is an auxiliary verb and the second is finite verb like
When a work started in the past and have finished or not continuing to the present .
How Use has/have/had in the sentences that are given below
We use these verbs in making the perfect tense (Have, has, had)- ? I? ? you? ? we? or third person plural always come with ?have?
- and third person singular come with ? has?
- In the past tense (first, second, and third person ) in both number singular and plural come with had.
Some wrong expressions with present perfect
We often make a very common mistakes in our sentence, that we use past tense expression in present perfect tense. Never mix following past expressions in your present perfect sentence sentence . some past tense expressions are
- Yesterday,
- last evening/night/week / month/
- little while ago/moment/minute ago/day/ month/ago
Wrong expressions | Right expressions |
He has come yesterday. | He came yesterday. |
I have done this last year. | I did this last year. |
He has come a few minute ago. | He came few minute ago. |
I have met him last summer. | I met him last winter. |
?Just now? with present Perfect
We can use has/have/had with "just now"
- I have come just now.
- She has given me this book just now.
When the work started in the past and continue to the present:
to make these kind of sentence we use this formation: (Present perfect + adverbial /prepositional phrase)
these adverbial prepositional phrase are as following
- Yet
- just
- since
- for
- never
- often today
- recently
- so
- far
- until
- now up to the present
- this day, week, moment month etc
- follow this formation to use above words..
- We have not meet him since last year.
- She has lived in Canada for many years.
- She has not yet come.
- I have recently built a new website.
like
- Already
- yet
- since
- till now
- so far like ? he has already come here. Never use this (he has already came here)
Causative verbs -- When the subject of your sentence is making somebody else to get the work done , there we use this formation.....
Subject+ has/ have /had + object + past participial
- I had her punished for this deed .
- He has a website built.
- I had my application corrected.
- I got him punished
- I got my car repaired.
- He gets his car repair every month.
- I am getting my website built.
Past and distant past tense
When we want to say that one task started in the past and the other one happened in the distant past:
See how to make this kind of sentence.
first task is written in perfect tense and the last is written in simple past tense and to joint these two sentences we use conjunction ?
like... When, before, after
- like - She has gone before I reached at her home.
Second Action - I reached
So first action always come with perfect tense and the second with simple past tense.
Example
- The patient had died before the doctor reached.
- I had left the party before they join.
- I had ignore the proposal before you recommended.
Formation of compulsion /necessity /obligation sentences
Subject + has/have/had got +infinitive
Example
- I have to obey him.
- I have to borrow money.
- My father had to borrow money for me.
- You will have to follow me.
Subject + has /have / had +infinitive
- I have not to obey him.
- I have not to borrow money.
- I have pen.
- He has book.
- They have lots of money.
- We have property.
- A table has four legs.
- I have three sisters.
- A cow has two horns.
- These sentence also give expression of (take /give/ enjoy/experience)like
- I have had my dinner.
- She had her bath early in d morning.
- We had a good time.
Sub+had/have/has +no/ not any+ noun
- I have no money
- He has no money.
- I have not any money.
- He has not any money.
- Never use (no any)
- Subjected/does/did not have + noun
- I don?t have any money
- he doesn?t have any money
- he did not have any money
Interrogatives with has /have/ had:
- Have you a book.
- Has he a house?
- Had they have time?
- We can also make these with do/does like
- Do you have a book?
- Does he have a big house?
like- Supposed, expect, hope, think, wish, want intend Past perfect + infinitive
- I had expected to find him here .
- I had hoped to get passed this year.
- I had expected to have found him here.
- I had hoped to have received your call.
- I had wished to have bought a new car.
in the repetitive use of have, had and had: the first had is an auxiliary verb and the second is finite verb like
- I have had my breakfast.
- She had had her breakfast early in the morning.
- He will have had her bath by now.
- Had I been a princess.
- Had I seen your performance.
- Had he won this game?
When a work started in the past and have finished or not continuing to the present .
- She has been a good dancer.
- He has been my teacher.
- I have been to England.
- Verb "to Be" And Its Agreement
How to use ?To be? verbs (is , are ,am)"Is" ? it is a singular verb and comes with singular third person. Like - ( he is a god student), "Am" - come with first person singular "Are" - with third person plural...
- Present Perfect Tense - Sentences And Exercises
We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a...
- Uses Of Different Forms Of Verbs
Uses of Different Forms of Verbs We now know that Verb has six forms: 1. Present Form 2. Past Form ...
- Combination Of Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs It is clear that Auxiliary Verbs are used only with the Non-finite Forms of a Verb when they are used as a verb taking a Subject. We now know that Verb has six Forms, namely:1. Present form2. Past form3. Present Participle4. Past...
- Forms Of Verbs
Forms of Verbs Finite Forms: We have already known about Finite Form and Non-finite Form of Verbs Finite Forms take Subject but Non-finite Forms take no Subject. Only Present Form and Past Form can take subjects. So Only Present Form...