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Is had had wrong?
It is correct, though it too might seem a bit awkward. To understand “had had,” we need to take a look at the present perfect and past perfect tenses. When you have two past-tense occurrences, you use past perfect to express the action that came first.
Should I use past tense after had?
To form the past perfect tense you use the past tense of the verb “to have,” which is had, and add it to the past participle of the main verb. Some examples of the past perfect tense can be seen in the following sentences: Had met: She had met him before the party.
Why we use had in past tense?
When you need to talk about two things that happened in the past and one event started and finished before the other one started, place “had” before the main verb for the event that happened first. Here are some more examples of when to use “had” in a sentence: “Chloe had walked the dog before he fell asleep.”
When do you not use “had” in a sentence?
We don’t need to use “had” in a sentence when we’re using regular past sentence (also called simple past tense). That is, we don’t need to use “had” if we’re referring to a single event in the past. Here’s an example of a sentence with a verb in regular past tense (see underlined text):
How do you use the past perfect tense of “had”?
“I had already called Matt about the invoice when we received the cheque in the mail.” As this sentence shows, we write verbs in the past perfect tense by attaching “had” to the regular past tense version of the main verb (i.e., “called”). And when do we use the past perfect tense?
Where do people run into trouble in past perfect sentences?
Where people run into trouble is when the verb that ought to be in past perfect is to have. Because that’s when you run into the awkward-sounding, and seemingly redundant, had had. Shelby had had the ability to fly long before her mother found out. Yeah, sorry, that’s correct.
What is a sentence with a verb in past tense?
Here’s an example of a sentence with a verb in regular past tense (see underlined text): “We received the cheque in the mail.” This sentence describes just one event in the past – receiving the cheque in the mail.