Verb to have  (P4)

We normally use HAVE as a main verb with an object to talk about common actions.

-       Have a shower, have breakfast, have a headache, have a cold.

 

The present perfect tense is used when we connect the present with recent past in some way and it will look like this:

• Has had


• Have had

Contracted form:

• ‘s had


• ‘ve had

Have they had their medicine yet?  Yes, they’ve had their medicine.

Had Had in the past perfect form. You use the past perfect when you are talking about the past and want to refer back to an earlier past time.

By the time he’d finished work he’d had four coffees.

Past perfect forms are a feature of if-clauses in the third type of conditional sentence when we are explaining past actions or regretting past inaction.

If I had had more time, I would have finished the project on time.

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