HAVE HAD / HAS HAD / HAD HAD - Are these correct? - English Grammar Made Easy

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Hey there and welcome back. I'm Ganesh
today's lesson we're going to talk about
have had, has had, and had had. Now many
students have come to me and said - I saw
had had in a sentence. Is that
grammatically correct or is that an
error - is that a typo?
meaning a printing error. And let me tell
you
all three of these forms are
grammatically correct and you should
learn how to use them correctly. Alright,
over here I have three sentences that
are going to help us understand these
forms
take a look at the first sentence - I have
had lunch
what a strange sounding sentence right - I
have had lunch.
well let me tell you a little secret
when you see two 'have's in a sentence
this is have, this is also have, it's just
in the past participle form - its had but
it's basically just have. So when you see
two 'have's in a sentence then the first
have and the second have have different
meanings
this first have is called a helping verb
I've written helping verb over there and
this had is called the main verb
it's called the main verb because it has
the main meaning in the sentence - this
have only shows the tense of the
sentence
so when you see have or had used as
the main verb that means that it is
being used as a shortcut for some other
word but in this case
what could that other word be? What could
be the meaning of had? Well take a look
at this list over on the side. When we
use have as the main verb in a sentence
it could mean a number of different
things - it could mean to eat like when we
talk about having breakfast or
having dinner
or it could mean to have a drink which
means just to drink something or we
could be talking about owning something
like when I say I have a car
I mean that I own a car or it could show
some relationship between people
I have a sister - that means or that shows
a brother-sister relationship or it
could talk about some kind of experience
like if I said I had difficulty or I had
trouble finding the place
that means it was difficult for me to
find the place
Now these are just some example meanings
of have. The word have has many meanings
in English so if you want to see all of
those meetings go and look at your
dictionary and find the word have and
you'll see a lot of meanings but these
are some of the more common meanings
OK let's now look at our sentence - I have
had lunch
so what could this had mean in this
sentence?
well in this sentence it means eaten
because here you see there's the word
lunch
so this sentence just means "I have eaten
lunch."
we are using had as the shortcut for
eaten
OK but what about this have? Well as I
told you before that have shows the
tense of the sentence. To understand that
read the sentence without the have
I had lunch. I had lunch means I ate
lunch. When did I have lunch?
maybe I had lunch yesterday or the day
before - any time in the past and
that has no connection to the present.
But when we use this have it shows that
my eating lunch has some connection to
the present. For example if a friend
comes to me and asks "Hey do you want to
have lunch with me?" and I don't want to
have lunch because my lunch is already
finished
i would say "Oh I have had lunch"
Thank you very much. So this have shows
that I just ate lunch so it shows some
connection to the present
So you see this have shows the tense and
this had means eaten so they're
completely different functions or
purposes
Alright with this knowledge let's now
look at the second sentence - He has had
four jobs in two years
once again we're going to separate the
two 'have's
this is the helping verb and this is the
main verb. And the meaning of the main
verb here is worked so "He has worked four
jobs in two years" is what it means
So once again had is being used as a
shortcut for worked
What about this has? Well this is just
the same as this have over here but we
are saying has because the subject is he
if the subject is he, she, or it
we say has. If the subject is I, you,
we or they we use have. So if the
subject here were I, this would be have
I have had four jobs in two years
but since it's he, it's has and once again
the tense here is the present perfect
tense and this 'has' shows some connection
to the present

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