Name: How to use ‘HAVE HAD’ correctly in one sentence? English Grammar Rules Lesson for Beginners
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Hi friends, welcome to a new lesson. Well, have you tried troubling someone and annoying

Past simple

someone to the hilt and they turn around and tell you, “Enough! I've had it.” Yes you

may have heard it. Or probably when your sibling or your spouse is back from work and they

tell you, “I've had a very tough day today.” Okay and you wondering like why do you need

to say, ‘I have had’ why can't you just simply say, ‘I had’ yeah? So well one

of the most common queries that has come up in the recent times and that is, ‘have’,

‘had’. What is ‘have’, ‘had’ and when do we use it? Okay so it's not really

difficult but first clear the misconception that ‘have ‘and ‘had’ cannot be used

together. Yes they can and make complete sense to a sentence when they are used together,

okay? Now before we get on to examples I would like to tell you how do you get ‘have’,

‘had’ in a sentence. Okay so since a lot of people and you know who learn English to

ask me this question that where does ‘have’, ‘had’ come and how can you have ‘have’,

‘had’ together? Well now I'll tell you how you can. Now let's take example of a verb

‘I eat’ okay? So I eat eggs for breakfast every morning, okay ‘I eat’. Now I can

use the simple verb eat or I can replace it by saying I have eggs for breakfast, right?

So more often than not we use have. I have eggs and milk or I have a fruit platter for

breakfast, yeah? So I'm using have in place of eat fair enough? So have I eat I have both

are in the simple present tense. Now if I say I am eating that means my action is on

right now. So I'm eating and I get a call and my friend asks me, “What are you doing?”

I say “I’m eating my breakfast, I'll call you, okay?” Same thing instead of eating

I'm using having okay so I'll say, “I am having my breakfast.” Okay now this brings

us to a very important rule of ‘have’, ‘have’ actually means to possess, okay?

So I have a marker here with me I possess it and that is the original meaning of ‘have’.

When you talk about ‘have’ in its original meaning that means to possess it never takes

the ‘ing’ form. So even right now I have this marker in my hand. I cannot say I am

having this marker, no! Or I'm having two houses in the city, no! So remember as a possession,

to show possession or that you own it never goes in the ‘ing’ form. So if you have

been using ‘have’ the ‘ing’ form that shows possession, stop using it. I will tell

you what to use when we get there but if you are replacing ‘have’ okay instead of eat

good to go you can use it as ‘ing’. So I'm having my lunch because it is replacing

eat okay fair enough? I cannot tell you I'm having an apple in my bag, no! I have an apple

because I possess it. But if I'm munching on it and chewing it right now, I'm having

an apple, fair enough, because I'm replacing ‘eat’. Got this rule? As a possession

no ‘ing’. Eating, having instead of eating fair enough you can use it, okay? Now coming

back, ‘I eat’ ‘I have’ simple present tense. ‘I am eating’, ‘I am having’

present continuous tense. What did I do? I put the verb in ‘ing’ and I had a supporting

verb to make it a simple continuous present tense, okay? Now if I want to tell you I am

done eating, I have finished, what I'll do is I okay if you remember verb has three forms,

‘present’, ‘past’ and ‘past participle’ you put it in the past participial like this

got it? But you also use have because if you do not use a supporting verb you will not

know which tenses it is. Is it in the present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, right?

So eat became eaten verb in the third form, okay? And you had a supporting verb. I'm doing

exactly the same thing over here. I put eat in the third form, I'm going to put have in

the third form, what is the third form? ‘Have’, ‘had’, ‘had’, okay? Now if I leave

it at this, it becomes a simple past tense, I had an apple. But I want to keep it in the

present perfect tense like I have done here, the same funda, you’re going to add and

this is how you derive at ‘have’, ‘had’ okay? So ‘have’, ‘had’ is nothing

but the present perfect tense, you put a verb in the third form, you do exactly the same

thing you put a verb in the past participle but you add ‘have’ to make it a present

perfect tense. So ‘a’ what we have learnt today is, how does ‘have’, ‘had’ take

birth and this is how it you derive it, okay? So I just took help of another verb to show

you if this is exactly the same process and that is how ‘have’, ‘had’ is logically

correct in English. So this makes it your present perfect tense, clear? ‘Had’ is

the main verb, verb in the past participle form with the supporting verb to keep it in

the present tense, okay? And of course this varies she, with she it becomes has had. So

you may have She/he, has had okay? So now we very clear

about how we derive and have had and how and why they can come together so I hope this

part of your confusion is gone now let's look at how do we use it in our daily conversation.

Okay so here I have a sentence that says she has had okay because it's she third-person

you use has don't forget this rule we've learned it in many lessons “She has had a headache

since yesterday.” Now think of it like this the action started yesterday what action the

headache okay it's like it's been my head is okay burdened with pain since yesterday

and till today I have a headache. Ideally speaking it should be taking the present perfect

continuous as in she has been having a headache, right? That is the way it is like I have been

living in London for ten years because ten years ago I came and I'm still living so the

action started in the past it is still continuing right? But like I told you the rule for have

is, it does not take an ing form when you talk about possession so I cannot put it in

the ing form okay so but if I say she has a headache since yesterday it is incorrect

you want to show longevity of the action you want to show that the action has been continuing

since a point of time in the past so you need to use the correct tense with the correct

verb. So what I do is I can't keep it in a simple present tense because it is not correct

to say it's like, I live in Mumbai, I live in London say for 10 years it doesn't make

sense I have been living right? So we cannot use ing we cannot take the present perfect

continuous so we pass it on to the present perfect tense and then you say she has had

a headache since yesterday, so ‘a’ we use it when you want to say something that

you have wrongly been having from a point of time in the past till date okay but because

you cannot show possession in ing you use a present perfect tense she has had a headache

since yesterday similar example we have had this car for four years now I bought this

car four years ago I have been possessing it but I cannot say we have been having why

because have as a verb opposition never and I mean never goes in the ing so we have had

this car for four years. So used in place of present perfect continuous tense okay?

So we've done it because it's a possession you cannot use ing. Now let's see how to use

as a present perfect tense I've had three off this week. This week is still on okay,

it's the present time frame this week is still on I've used a contraction here it's I have

had so when you say you say I've, I've had three offs this week present ok it's the present

time period is still on generally people would say I had three offs this week, incorrect.

Because the week the time frame is still on and you have already got three offs you say

I have had three offs this week okay and the next one is they've had four meetings this

month. Now whatever month you are in, say for example I am in June or July okay I’m

in month of July, in July this month is still on the month is not yet completed it is a

present time frame and so but, but my four meetings are done, action completed, the present

time frame is still on, you use a present perfect tense and you say they have had four

meetings this month and that is how have had is used and yes friends so when you hear,

people use have had don't kind of got confused or when you hear people use has had don't

kind of get confused and say but how can two haves or has had or have had come together

yes they can and this how you derive it. I'm sure you have another question in your mind

and that is when do we use ‘had’ ‘had’ well we will come to ‘had’ ‘had’ later

right now let's deal with have had let's practice it and I'm sure you understood this you now

know when to use it. As a quick rule remember have as a verb a possession can never go in

‘ing’ if you need to show continuity of the action use the present perfect tense use