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Did you have VS had?
“Had” is not the appropriate tense to use in this case: you must use “have”. The grammatically correct form of your sentence would be “Did you already have the opportunity to do something?”
What is the meaning of had you?
“Have you” is in the present perfect which is about an event in the past relative to the present moment. For instance, these people you are seeing now: “Have you seen them before?” “Had you” is in the past perfect tense which is about an event in the past relative to another event in the past.
What is the sentence of had you?
You asked about Had you~~ and Did you~~. If these are used in questions, it’s pretty straightforward, one is past perfect and the other is past tense, just questions. There is a situation in which Had you could be used in the conditional: Had you studied harder, you would have passed the test.
Did you get or have you got?
“Get” is the present tense form of the verb and “got” is the past tense form, but the tenses are often used interchangeably. In informal speech, people often question each other with “Do you get it?” or just “Get it?” to check for comprehension.
Can we use did with had?
Yes we can use both of them in a sentence. As you know had is the past participle form and did is the simple past. So normally had is used in past perfect or continious.
When do you use “did” in a sentence?
You use “did” when you want to make a negative sentence in the past tense (past simple). You can use “did” for all the pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they). I didn’t see the sign. You didn’t fly to Rio de Janeiro. He didn’t go to work yesterday. She didn’t feel well. The program didn’t finish at 8 o’clock.
What is the difference between have had and have had?
“Have had” is using the verb have in the present perfect tense. Consider the present tense sentence: This means that I have a lot of homework now. On the other hand, we use the present perfect tense to describe an event from the past that has some connection to the present.
How to use ‘had had’ and ‘had wanted’ in the past perfect?
There’s no special magic with “had had”, they don’t really go together as a pair anymore than “had wanted” go together. So don’t worry so much about how to use “had had” as a unit of grammar, they will come together naturally when you want to express the verb ‘to have’ in the past perfect.
How do you use ‘has’ as a helping verb?
The first way it can be used as a ‘helping verb’. Commonly we see it in perfect tense. Some examples of using ‘Has’, ‘Have’, ‘Had’, and with ‘been’ as ‘has been’, ‘have been’ and ‘had been’ etc.; In ‘Present Perfect Tense’: He has finished his homework.